"This Story Is Telling For Lukashenko"

The dictator is playing the silent game.

Why does the Lukashenko regime, despite the danger to people, conceal information about drone flights and crashes over Belarus? The website Charter97.org posed to political scientist and candidate of philosophical sciences Maxim Pleshko:

— Because acknowledging the scale of the problem means acknowledging something much bigger. Lukashenko wants to remain an ally of Moscow while simultaneously convincing Belarusians that the war does not directly concern them.

Russian drones flying over Belarusian cities are making this narrative less and less convincing. That is why the regime is opting for a media blackout: no official acknowledgment means no political accountability. The incident in Zhlobin is telling. People hear an explosion near a major industrial facility, see the aftermath, discuss what happened, yet there is no official information.

This isn’t just censorship. It’s an attempt to hide the true cost of Lukashenko’s alliance with the Kremlin. The more Russia uses Belarus as a staging ground for war, the less autonomy Lukashenko has left. If Russian military operations are being conducted from Belarusian territory, the argument that “Belarus has nothing to do with this” no longer holds water.

Lukashenko is trying to pretend that Belarus is outside the war. But Russian military infrastructure is gradually making Belarus part of this war—whether he wants it to be or not.

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