"It's Another Myth About Belarus."

24.03.2026, 14:37
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Belarusians need help to oust Lukashenko.

The presentation of the book by the famous American writer Yuri Felshtinsky "Natallia Radzina's Belarus" was presented in Tallinn on March 19. The event at the Workland Vabaduse center gathered a full hall.

The meeting was attended by the editor-in-chief of the website Charter97.org Natallia Radzina, coordinator of the civil campaign "European Belarus" Dzmitry Bandarenka, and the presenter was a famous writer and journalist Arkadiy Babchenko.

The presentation was attended by Estonian journalists, diplomats, public figures, representatives of the Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian diasporas.

Arkadiy Babchenko raised the issue that has recently been of great concern to Estonians. Russian security services through social networks have begun to spread the idea of creating a "Narva People's Republic" - separation from Estonia of the city on the border with the Russian Federation, where 85% of the population is Russian. Can Putin annex Belarus and create a "Belarusian Federal District"? Will Lukashenko hinder the plans of the Kremlin dictator. Natallia Radzina believes that this is another popular misconception:

- Another myth that I would like to dispel is that Lukashenko is supposedly the guarantor of Belarus' sovereignty and somehow opposes Putin. This is absolutely not true. If Putin needs it, he will attack Kiev again from the territory of Belarus, as it happened on February 24, 2022, attack Lithuania, Latvia or commit suicide and attack Poland. Likewise, the same applies to the Belarusian army. Why is the Belarusian army not involved in the war against Ukraine? Because the Belarusians do not want to fight against the Ukrainians. Lukashenko understands perfectly well that if they are sent to Ukraine, they will either lay down their arms and surrender or go over to the side of the Ukrainians. This is the very idea Lukashenko brings to Putin. I myself am the daughter of a serviceman, my father has long been retired, but I can imagine what is happening to the Belarusian army. Lukashenko is an absolute puppet here.

Dzmitry Bandarenka told how he and his colleagues traveled to Kiev several years before the full-scale invasion of Russia and explained to the Ukrainian authorities that if they did not help the Belarusians to oust Lukashenko, it would lead to an attack on Ukraine from the north:

- We warned the Ukrainians and asked for help. After all, for example, it is a matter of several instances to put radio stations on the border with Belarus to broadcast to the country. Take and talk about the experience of their reforms, how Ukraine is going to the European Union and NATO, and this will affect Belarus. At the same time Lukashenka's propaganda media were on Ukraine's cable packages. Agreements were signed that Ukrainian TV channels would be in cable packages in Belarus, but it didn't happen. We said that if you don't help us, you will lose hundreds of billions. They say to us: "Hryvnia?" I said, "No, we're talking billions of dollars here." Everyone laughed.

Now very few Belarusians want to fight against Ukraine. But propaganda can do anything with them. I was a Soviet soldier in my time, these are scary things. Maybe Lukashenko should be helped in this counter-hybrid fight against dictatorship today by allocating the cost of three Leopard tanks to support independent media, to support bloggers. Of course, we can buy a lot of drones and missiles and airplanes, but the question is: will we get 100 thousand zombie Belarusians who will go with weapons to the Baltic States? It can be done in three years. And if we communicate with them, we will have more opportunities, not only there will be no zombies, the Belarusians can also resist those Russians who want the territory of Belarus.

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