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Vladimir Putin promised me the rank of colonel in the Russian army, Belarusian president claims

2022-02-07T07:39:02.917Z


The authoritarian President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko claimed in an interview that Vladimir Putin had promised him the rank of colonel of...


The authoritarian President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko claimed in an interview that Vladimir Putin had promised him the rank of colonel in the Russian army, adding that the Russian leader would become a general.

“Putin is a colonel, and he promised to make me a colonel.

He still hasn't done it,”

he said in this interview with Vladimir Solovyov, a spokesperson for the Kremlin.

He promised it, that he would do it

,” he says to the hilarious presenter, according to a video broadcast on Sunday by a Telegram account linked to the presidency of Belarus.

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The journalist, laughing out loud, tries to question the veracity of Lukashenko's remarks, who persists and signs, sometimes affirming that Putin's promise was to make him a colonel of the "

Russian army"

or of

the "army Soviet",

before continuing and saying that the Russian president, a former colonel of the KGB, "

will be made general to him"

.

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Alexander Lukashenko, whose regime is defended tooth and nail by the Kremlin while Minsk has mercilessly repressed a vast protest movement since 2020, is a regular at unusual statements.

At no time does he explain the context in which the promise of military promotion was made to him by the master of the Kremlin.

When the journalist points out to him that it is difficult for the president of an independent state to be an officer in the army of another country, the person concerned replies: “

It's my problem, not yours. »

Alexander Lukashenko, in charge of Belarus since 1994, has had a tumultuous relationship with Moscow.

Since the fall of 2020, he has posed as Russia's last bastion against the West, even promising to accompany it in a military campaign in Ukraine if necessary.

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Belarus is highly dependent on Russian financial credits as well as oil and gas supplies from its neighbour.

Regularly, rumors report a Kremlin project, always denied, of a merger with Russia.

Source: lefigaro

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