Aleksandr Lukashenko claimed that "the Poles want to take over the western part of Ukraine." He promised that if this alleged invasion happens, Belarus will help Ukraine. What else did the dictator say?

Alexander Lukashenko, the self-proclaimed President of Belarus, has stated that after the war that Russia unleashed on Ukraine with the help of Minsk, Belarusians will assist in the rebuilding of Ukraine.

The self-proclaimed president of Belarus says that his country would help rebuild Ukraine after the war ended. He believes that the US will not be involved, citing Belta. According to Lukashenko, the US will be preoccupied with internal issues,

The main defendant, Ukrainian national Nikolai Shvets, was sentenced in absentia to 25 years in prison. Shvets, who gave an interview to Belarusian state television last April in which he detailed how he planned the attack, was released in a prisoner exchange with Ukraine in June, according to Belarusian rights group Viasna.

The Minsk City Court sentenced 12 people to prison over sabotage of the Machulishchy military airfield in Belarus last year, the Viasna human rights group said on Oct. 4. Some of the sentences were handed down in absentia.