"The Days Of Backroom Deals With Lukashenko Are Over"

Ukraine must take a comprehensive and uncompromising approach.

Belarusian oil refineries are steadily increasing fuel shipments to Russia, with gasoline exports rising tenfold. How should Ukraine respond to these actions by the Lukashenko regime?

The website Charter97.org asked Maxim Pleshko, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences and head of the Ukrainian Center for Belarusian Communications :

— Fuel supplies for the Russian army and the Russian civilian market constitute direct financing and support for aggression. The Belarusian Mozyr and Novopolotsk oil refineries are currently operating as rear-area facilities for Russia’s military-industrial complex. The Lukashenko regime is profiting from the blood of Ukrainians by saving the Kremlin from a fuel crisis.

Ukraine must act comprehensively and uncompromisingly:

1. Belarusian oil refineries must become legitimate targets for sanctions and economic pressure from our Western partners. A full audit is needed, and any shadow schemes for exporting Belarusian petroleum products to the EU under the guise of other goods must be shut down.

2. A stark warning. Minsk must clearly understand: if Belarusian fuel continues to seamlessly power Russian tanks and aircraft that are killing our people, then the Mozyr Oil Refinery, located just a few dozen kilometers from the Ukrainian border, may suddenly suffer the same fate as the Omsk Oil Refinery or the oil depots in the Rostov Region.

The time for backroom deals is over. If Lukashenko has chosen to act as a gas station for Putin’s army, he must share all the military risks with Putin.

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