MINSK, 17 August (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has commented on the idea of forming a human solidarity chain from Vilnius to Kyiv as he hosted a meeting at the Strategic Management Center of the Defense Ministry of Belarus, BelTA learned from the Belarus 1 TV channel.
“Another important thing that cannot but raise concern (we have discussed it with President Putin): you see not only the statements of these states located to the west of us, not only their proposals. An interesting report came this morning that they want to form a human chain from Vilnius to Kyiv, a solidarity chain. There are not enough ‘non-indifferent' people forming chains and holding flowers in the Minsk avenue… They want to form a chain from Vilnius to Kyiv and gather over 300,000 people,” the head of state said.
“I instruct the Defense Ministry, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB, as well as the Prosecutor General, to give an assessment to this and prevent actions like this,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.
He went on saying: “I already went through this after the collapse of the Soviet Union when there was an attempt to establish the Baltic-Black Sea region – a buffer area consisting of three Baltic states, Belarus and Ukraine, that sought to cut Russia from the West.” “We do not want to serve as a lavatory for anyone, a sanitary cordon. We are fully aware what it can lead to. Therefore, the Russian president and I have agreed to coordinate our actions here,” the head of state noted.