Lukashenka warns Ukrainian revolutionaries (video)
The President has been making a lot of comments about the events in Ukraine recently. His idea of preventing Maidan: never steal from people.
Alyaksandr Lukashenka talked to Minskers who had come to lay flowers on the Monument of Victory on February 23. Ukraine should not be divided and it is not “a foreign country to us”, he stressed.
"Do not worry, the events will not repeat in our country,” the state leader said. “We should worry about our people going through this crisis there now. It is very hard. And it is only the beginning. You can talk a good game and appeal for anything. But economic and financial issues will have to be faced tomorrow. People need to be paid for their work, people need pensions and jobs. The revolutionaries will have to face these issues.
If everything is good and peaceful, we will have to be friends with them. But take it easy. Some people tried to organize a Maidan in Belarus in 2010. I think our people have understood what could have happened if we had allowed it back then. But we did not use water-cannons or tear gas then [during the dispersal of the Square on December 19, 2010 in Minsk]. But if you touch a policeman or a soldier who is trying to separate fighting people, the response will be immediate…
Do not worry, everything will be okay. We did not steal anything and have not created anything luxurious at someone else’s expense… Ukrainians were reduced to such a state… that some of them simply did not care what would happen next: it couldn’t be worse anyway.”
Photo: UNIAN, video: ONT
