Lukashenka in Hrodna mentioned Tsikhanouskaya in Ukraine and spoke about the difficult fate of Belarusian doctors in the West
Aliaksandr Lukashenka, during his trip to Hrodna on June 5, opened a new regional clinical hospital there and, on this occasion, scared local doctors with the danger of war, and also spoke about how their colleagues in Europe are suffering.
Lukashenka said that intelligence had reported to him that during Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's visit to Ukraine, she allegedly told Volodymyr Zelenskyy that "we have something to offer you — our Belarusians." According to Lukashenka's interpretation, this means that "we must go to fight in Ukraine for someone else's will," "to be cannon fodder there."
Aliaksandr Lukashenka often, and even most often, either lies in such statements or deliberately distorts the meaning of his political opponents' words. "Nasha Niva" has not yet found such words from Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. In open sources, her quote has a completely different meaning: *“We support the Ukrainian army and are ready to participate in the reconstruction of Ukraine. We are ready to contribute to demining, infrastructure restoration, share our best practices, and help develop rehabilitation programs. Our IT specialists are ready to share technologies to protect Ukrainian democracy. Our diaspora worldwide is ready to bring its experience and energy to rebuild Ukraine.”*
Lukashenka also said that he asked his subordinates whether Belarusian doctors wanted to go work in Poland, but they allegedly assured Lukashenka that the reverse process was now in full swing:
"No, they say, they already want to return. We feel it. I see it through our commission; fugitives are already applying there, including doctors and teachers. And why are you returning? You went there for wages and other things. Strangers!
Please, we will accept you, to wash dishes or something else. These "consumables-waste products," as with doctors, to empty trash cans and other things. "We are doctors, we want to work." No, we have our own doctors here. And you, for now, stay there.
They are returning. I'm not saying they are bad people. Mostly, they were not bad doctors. They went, lost time, lost money, some lost their families. What did they gain?"
After that, he began to convince those gathered that "nobody needs us" in the West, and "carrying ammunition — you can do that here too."
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