Ukraine, Belarus and the politics behind the threat | DW News
Ukraine has warned for weeks that Russia could once again use Belarusian territory to threaten the country from the north — reviving grim memories from the start of the war, when Russian troops crossed the border from Belarus in their push toward Kyiv. We spoke to Pavel Slunkin, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and former political analyst at Belarus’s Foreign Ministry, about the visit of exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to Ukraine — and about Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s recent appeal to the Belarusian people on X.
Chapters:
00:00 Ukraine and the threat from Belarus
00:28 Zelenskyy meets Tsikhanouskaya in Kyiv, appeals to the Belarusian people
01:30 Pavel Slunkin on Kyiv’s dual messaging
04:49 Can Belarus resist pressure from Vladimir Putin?
05:45 No clear signs of an imminent attack
10:22 Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko depends on Russia
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