Saakashvili: Putin Wants To Seize Up Belarus

Georgia’s ex-president has stated that the independence of Belarus is under threat.

Georgia’s ex-president and former Odessa region governor Mikhail Saakashvili said that the independence of Belarus is under threat. He said that to Radio Racyja while communicating with journalists in Poland.

"I have always been an advocate of Belarus. I believed that the independence of Belarus is the highest value, since if there is no Belarus as an independent state, what can we talk about? And this threat has not disappeared. Of course, I am for the freedom of the Belarusian people, I am sure that the democratic future is the only alternative, since the Belarusians are one of the most advanced nations in the world," – Saakashvili said.

At the same time, he noted that it is necessary to fight for independence, protect independence and take into account all the factors.

"I think that at the moment Putin, with or without Lukashenka, wants to take Belarus and we must not give him that opportunity," – the disgraced politician said.

According to Mikhail Saakashvili, after the West-2017 exercises, a part of the Russian troops may stay on the territory of Belarus. "The army units can be used both for actions against Ukraine and for occupying of Belarus," – Georgia’s ex-president and former Odessa region governor said.

We remind that on August 3, Ukraine informed the US and all the other countries that all the former Odessa region governor’s passports had been annulled. Nevertheless, Mikhail Saakashvili arrived in Poland. According to him, neither the US nor Poland recognizes the deprivation of his Ukrainian citizenship.