Belarusian dictator Lukashenko surprisingly admits he and Putin are “the most harmful, toxic people on the planet” and “co-aggressors” in front of awkward-looking Vladimir

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has admitted that he and Vladimir Putin are the “most toxic people on the planet”.

The pair held a summit yesterday amid speculation that the Kremlin leader will force the Minsk tyrant to join his war in Ukraine.

So far, Lukashenko has resisted joining the war.

But in a video clip that could later prove useful to war crimes investigators, Lukashenko portrayed himself and Putin as evil pantomime villains.

The pair held a summit yesterday amid speculation that the Kremlin leader will force the Minsk tyrant to join his war in Ukraine.

“You know, we’re both co-aggressors,” he admitted.

The most harmful [and] toxic people on this planet. We have only one argument – who is more [toxic]?

Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin] say it’s me I’m beginning to think it’s him.’

Lukashenko told journalists: “Well, [we] decide that we both are [equally toxic]. That’s all.

Putin smiled and fumbled with his papers, but seemed to agree with what Lukashenko, a former collective farm boss, said

“And if anyone thinks of tearing us apart today [apart]to drive us apart…[they will not].’

Putin smiled and fumbled with his papers, but seemed to agree with what Lukashenko, a former collective farm boss, said.

According to human rights groups and opposition politicians, both leaders use their secret services to torture and humiliate political enemies.

Their political enemies are usually imprisoned or forced into exile.

Meeting with Lukashenko on a rare visit to Belarus, Putin fueled fears in Kiev that he plans to pressure his former Soviet ally to join a new ground offensive launching a new front against the Ukraine will open.

Sergei Shoigu, Putin’s ailing defense minister, is limping

Sergei Shoigu stumbled through a palace hall in Belarus yesterday

Putin’s visit for talks with the Belarusian president was his first visit to Minsk since 2019.

The Kremlin has for years sought to deepen integration with Belarus, which depends on Moscow for cheap oil and credit, but Lukashenko has so far resisted full unification with Russia despite being a key ally in the war wash.

Ahead of Putin’s visit, however, there had been speculation that he would push Lukashenko to send his troops into Ukraine with the Russian army after suffering a string of defeats against Moscow in nearly ten months of fighting.

Putin’s troops have been pushed back in northern, northeastern and southern Ukraine. Presumably Belarus has Soviet-era weapons stockpiles that could be useful to Moscow, while Lukashenko needs help with his country’s ailing economy.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov told Russian news channels that although Belarus is Russia’s “No. 1 ally”, suggestions that Moscow wants to pressure Minsk to participate in its so-called “special military operation” are “stupid and baseless fabrications”.

Serhiy Nayev, the commander of Ukraine’s joint forces, said he believed the talks would be about “further aggression against Ukraine and broader involvement of Belarusian forces in the operation against Ukraine, especially on the ground, in our view. ” .

Top Ukrainian general Valery Saluzhny told The Economist last week that Russia was preparing 200,000 new troops for a major offensive that could come from the east, south or even Belarus as early as January, but more likely in the spring.

Russian forces used Belarus as a launch pad for their failed attack on the Ukrainian capital Kiev in February, and Russian and Belarusian military operations there have been ongoing for months. Last week, three Russian fighter jets and one early warning and aerial surveillance aircraft were deployed to Belarus.