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The leader of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has said that the only mistake that Russia and his country made in relation to Ukraine was the fact that they did not invade it in 2014 when there was no army.
In 2014, Russia illegally occupied Crimea and annexed it from Ukraine, where Kremlin-backed fighters also seized territory in eastern Ukraine.
Lukashenko's comments, which Minsk said were made on Thursday during a meeting with the heads of security agencies of the Commonwealth of Independent States, made up of former Soviet countries, show that Lukashenko has fully embraced his transformation into a puppet of the Russian president Vladimir Putin.
He has had a love-hate relationship with Putin during his nearly three decades in power. But after the Kremlin helped him avert mass street protests after contested presidential elections in 2020, the Belarusian dictator moved closer to Putin, helping Moscow launch its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and agreeing to wait Russian nuclear weapons on his country's soil.
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