Moscow (EFE).- The President of Belarus, Alexandr Lukashenko, assured this Tuesday that the “threat of a new world conflict has never been so close” as today and warned that “if Russia collapses”, everyone will die.
In a ceremony of awarding the ranks of general to high military commanders, the Belarusian leader affirmed that “if Russia collapses, we will be under the rubble and we will all die.”
Lukashenko assured that they are trying to “shake up” the region and “disorient” its people to impose new rules and a new world order.
“Our countries and our peoples will no longer be in that order,” he added.
Silence on the agreement with the Wagner Group
According to Lukashenko, the West would immediately take advantage of the situation if chaos breaks out in Russia, alluding to the failed Wagner Group mutiny.
At the same time, the Belarusian leader, who brokered an agreement between Wagner’s boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Kremlin that put an end to the armed rebellion of Russian mercenaries last weekend, avoided commenting on its details.
Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed on Monday that Wagner’s mercenaries who participated in the rebellion could join the Russian regular army or other security agencies, return home or go into exile in Belarus.
According to Belarusian media, on Tuesday Prigozhin’s plane landed at an airfield near Minsk.