Belarusians cast ballots Sunday in a constitutional referendum called by President Alexander Lukashenko to cement his 27-year-old grip on power. The vote comes as Lukashenko has offered the country’s territory to his ally Russia to invade Ukraine.
“But you aren’t on the same side with us in the war that is going on now,” Zelenskyy said in Russian, which is widely spoken in Belarus. “The Russian military is launching missiles at Ukraine from your territory. From your territory they are kiling our children, they are destroying our homes and trying to blow up everything that has been built for decades.”
Lukashenko ominously warned Sunday that more sanctions from the West are “pushing the world to the brink of World War III.” “This pseudo referendum is being held under the Russian gun barrels and under effective control of the Russian military which has come to stay in Belarus for a long time,” Belarus’ first post-Soviet leader, Stanislav Sushkevich, told The Associated Press.
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