Belarus Review by iSANS — May 05, 2025 

Belarus Review by iSANS — May 05, 2025
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  1. MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS
  2. POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS
  3. HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE
  4. PROPAGANDA

MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS

According to Ukrainian monitoring channels, no incursions of Russian drones of the “Shahed” type were recorded in Belarusian airspace between April 28 and May 4.

On April 29, Vladimir Putin, during a meeting with Aliaksandr Lukashenka in Volgograd, proposed the creation of a joint drone production facility. “We have agreed to expand this industrial cooperation, including through joint work in the field of aviation and the aviation industry. I would like to share with you the proposals we have here. We are already prepared to establish a plant together with your specialists, as well as the corresponding laboratory for unmanned technology. This is particularly important for the economy and logistics,” said Putin. It is worth recalling that as early as the beginning of March, it was reported that Russia had proposed building a drone manufacturing plant in Belarus. The production capacity of such a facility could reach up to 100,000 units annually.

On May 1, it was reported that Belarus plans to introduce criminal liability for illegal actions involving drones. According to the draft law, the Criminal Code is to be amended with Article 300-1, which provides for punishment for repeated violations (import, storage, operation, or manufacturing of drones) committed within a year after administrative penalties for similar actions. The maximum punishment is up to two years of restricted freedom. Additionally, the draft law proposes stricter administrative liability. Specifically, penalties are introduced for the import, storage, operation, and manufacturing of drones, as well as for drone operation by an untrained operator (Article 18.38 of the Code of Administrative Offences). Responsibility is also tightened for violations of airspace usage rules involving drones (Article 18.35). Sanctions include fines and confiscation of drones.

On May 3, the State Authority for Military Industry (Goskomvoenprom) reported that Cuba had successfully conducted live-fire launches of the S-125-2BM “Pechora-2BM” surface-to-air missile system, produced and supplied by Belarus and modernised by specialists of Belarusian company JSC “ALEVKURP”. All four guided missiles hit their designated training targets, confirming the declared specifications of the system. This is not the first instance of the modernised S-125 system being exported. In 2022, it was reported that the Belarusian company “Tetraedr” had supplied Laos with a different version of the system — the S-125-2TM “Pechora-2TM”. In 2023, Kyrgyzstan also purchased an unspecified number of S-125-2BM “Pechora-2BM” systems from Belarus.

POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS

During the period under review, the leader of the Belarusian democratic forces, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, took part in the Three Seas Initiative Summit in Warsaw, attending at the invitation of Polish President Andrzej Duda. This marked the first time Tsikhanouskaya was invited to the summit, which brought together delegations from over 20 countries. During the summit, Tsikhanouskaya held a series of brief conversations with heads of state and government representatives. She spoke with the Presidents of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Poland, Estonia, and Albania, as well as with the Turkish Minister of Transport, the Spanish Minister for European Affairs, and a representative of the U.S. Department of Energy. “I stand for Belarus’s return to the European space — not only politically, but also economically, logistically, and in terms of energy,” Tsikhanouskaya stated at the summit. “The Three Seas Initiative is a platform where we can build future partnerships for a free Belarus”. Tsikhanouskaya also stressed that the isolation of Belarus pursued by the Lukashenka regime runs counter to the interests of the Belarusian people and prevents the country from cooperation with its neighbours. She emphasised that Belarus should not serve as a military outpost for Russia, but rather be part of a stable and secure region.

At the European People’s Party (EPP) Congress in Valencia on April 30, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya emphasised that supporting a free Belarus is a strategic investment in Europe’s future. She noted that while Belarus is rarely mentioned in peace negotiations, the outcomes of these talks will shape the future of the entire region — not only Ukraine, but also Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, and Armenia. Tsikhanouskaya urged EPP leaders to prioritise Belarus, highlighting its pivotal role in securing lasting peace in Ukraine and broader regional stability. The EPP resolution “Repression against religious freedom in Belarus: a threat to fundamental rights” was presented at the Congress. In it, the party strongly condemned the new law on freedom of conscience and religious organisations, as well as an article of the Criminal Code that criminalizes activities on behalf of unregistered organisations.

From 2–7 May, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is visiting the United States to strengthen support for democratic Belarus. She announced the trip on X, stating: “I am heading to the U.S. to boost support for democratic Belarus. I will start in Arizona at the Sedona Forum, then go to Dallas to meet international partners, and finally to Washington.” One of the key topics on the agenda will be steps to secure the release of political prisoners. Tsikhanouskaya made the announcement while en route to the United States. Notably, on the eve of her departure — 30 April — Belarusian-American dual citizen Yuri Zenkovich was released and brought to Lithuania by a group of U.S. officials, including Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Christopher Smith. The release was warmly welcomed by the Belarusian democratic forces, however they emphasized that more than 1,200 political prisoners are kept in captivity by the Lukashenka regime. Tsikhanouskaya began her visit by taking part in the annual Sedona Forum, hosted by the McCain Institute. She spoke on a panel focused on the consequences of the war in Ukraine, shifting European security dynamics, and the role of the United States under the new administration. In her remarks, Tsikhanouskaya emphasised that a ceasefire without justice would only embolden Putin and increase threats to Belarus and the broader region. Key messages from Tsikhanouskaya’s speech were that peace is not simply the absence of war.  “Peace must be just and sustainable. It cannot be a pause that allows Putin to regroup and attack Belarus, Europe, or Ukraine again in a few years. Neither Putin nor Lukashenka want real peace. War fuels their regimes. They just want to deceive you. Dictators cannot be trusted. That is why any negotiations or peace initiatives must be on Ukraine’s terms.” Russia must not be allowed to reassert its sphere of influence. “If these negotiations strengthen Putin and Russia, they will continue their repression against the democratic world — against Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, and our entire region. And it is entirely possible that in the future, they will attack Europe or America’s closest allies. That is why it is crucial for the United States to remain consistent and principled.” Belarus could be used as a launchpad for future aggression. “We already see how Belarusian territory is being used to blackmail our Western neighbours — with nuclear weapons stationed there, military exercises that last time led directly to war in Ukraine. That’s why we ask you: stand with the Belarusian people, stand with Ukrainians. We are on the frontline in the fight against dictatorship.”

At a meeting of the CIS Economic Council held in Tashkent on April 29, Yuri Shuleiko, Deputy Prime Minister under the Lukashenka regime, called for greater transport security, the development of transport corridors, and a shift to using national currencies in transactions to enhance economic cooperation within the CIS. He announced that the draft action plan for the second phase of the CIS Economic Development Strategy for 2026–2030 is in the final stage of preparation and is expected to be signed during the upcoming autumn meeting of the CIS heads of government. Speaking at the inaugural CIS Forum of Regions, Shuleiko claimed that the total economic impact of the 11 Belarus-Russia regional forums has reached an estimated USD 7 billion. He also noted that Belarus has over 200 interregional cooperation agreements in place with CIS countries.

HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE

The coronavirus epidemic was recorded in Ivatsevichi correctional colony No. 22. The prisoners are sick in whole squads, but they are forbidden to complain, human rights activists write. It is reported that there are not enough medicines in the medical unit of the colony and prisoners are treated with paracetamol, as if for a common cold. Several of the most seriously ill patients have already been admitted to the Republican General Hospital of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Department of Execution of Punishment. The epidemic has been going on for at least two weeks, but the colony administration does not want to declare quarantine, as it will have to change the mode of operation of the institution completely. The administration of the colony forbids talking about the shortage of medicines.

New criminal cases were opened against ex-political prisoner Palina Sharenda-Panasyuk. Her relatives were interrogated. Her husband, Andrei Sharenda, said that the cases were initiated on charges of evading preventive supervision and calling for sanctions and other actions aimed at harming the national security of Belarus. Sharenda-Panasyuk was released at the end of her fourth term in February this year. She was supposed to be released back in 2022, but criminal proceedings were initiated against her several times on charges of disobeying the demands of the correctional institution administration and she was sentenced to additional terms of imprisonment. She spent four years and one month in prison. Palina left Belarus after her release. Therefore, the new criminal cases against her were opened in absentia.

The Investigative Committee opened new criminal cases against Leanid Sudalenka, a human rights defender and former head of the Homel branch of “Viasna” Human Rights Center, and Uladzimir Shantsau, acting chair of the United Civil Party, for participating in the program “Politbomond” on the YouTube channel 6TV Bielarus. According to Sudalenka, three criminal cases were initiated against him: one on April 9 for creating and publishing the video “Viasna Pryidze” [“Spring will come”] on the YouTube channel Viasna96 on May 28, 2024, and two more on February 20 and 24 for participating in the program “Politbomond”. All three cases were initiated under the charge of “other repeated assistance to extremist activities”. Sudalenka considers the initiation of cases to be political persecution, intimidation and pressure. These new criminal cases against Leanid were opened in absentia as he left Belarus last year after serving his prison.

The Prosecutor General’s Office requested the Supreme Court to recognize the United Transitional Cabinet of the Belarusian Democratic Forces as a terrorist organization. It was stated that the United Transitional Cabinet should be recognised as a terrorist organization together with all its structural divisions. According to the General Prosecutor’s Office, Cabinet’s activities are “supervised and funded by a number of neighbouring foreign countries”. “The main objectives of the formation’s creation and existence are defined as actions to plan, prepare and commit attacks on the independence, territorial integrity, sovereignty and public security of Belarus by seizing and retaining state power,” said Dzmitry Bryleu, a representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office. Earlier, the United Transitional Cabinet was already recognised as an “extremist formation”. The Cabinet assures that despite the possible new status of a “terrorist organisation”, it will continue its work. “We are working in the interests of Belarusians, and the threats of the regime will not stop our activities,” said Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the leader of the Belarusian democratic forces.

Political prisoner Victoryja Kulsha was not released in April 2025 after her term expired, as she was transferred to Homiel Pre-trial detention centre No. 3 within the framework of the fourth criminal case on charges of malicious disobedience to the demands of the colony administration. She had already been sentenced to imprisonment three times under this charge. Former political prisoner Palina Sharenda-Panasyuk reported that Kulsha had declared an indefinite hunger strike. “This will be her sixth hunger strike in detention, this time to the end: either we will manage to release her, or she will die,” wrote Sharenda-Panasyuk. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s Office informed international organizations and representatives of EU member states about the situation of Victoryja Kulsha and asked for urgent assistance. The Office called on journalists, politicians, and human rights defenders to make public statements demanding an immediate medical examination of Kulsha, access of a lawyer to her and visits by her relatives, and her complete release.

The European Union called on the Belarusian authorities to release Victoryja Kulsha and other political prisoners in Belarus. The statement was published on Twitter by the Lead Spokeswoman for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union, Anita Hipper. Members of the European Parliament expressed their concern regarding Victoryja Kulsha’s health. They fear that Kulsha may become the first female political prisoner to die in custody under the Lukashenka regime. This statement was made by the European Parliament’s Delegation for relations with Belarus.

The rector of the local sanctuary of the Mother of God of Fatima, priest Andrzej Yukhnevich, was sentenced to 13 years of imprisonment. The verdict was announced on April 30 in Shumilina. The trial was held behind closed doors, it is not known on what charges Yukhnevich, who was initially detained for “political” reasons, was convicted. It followed from the court schedule that he was charged with three criminal articles related to relations with minors. He completely denied the accusations and tried to prove his innocence. Yukhnevich was detained in May 2024. He was sentenced to 15 days of arrest for posting white-red-white and Ukrainian flags on Facebook. He was never released. He was sentenced to several more terms of arrest, and then, in early July last year, it became known that he had been transferred to a pre-trial detention centre.

Political prisoner Yury Zyankovich, a citizen of the USA and Belarus, who in 2021 was accused of plotting against Lukashenka, was released from prison at the request of the U.S. presidential administration. After his release he was taken to Lithuania, accompanied by U.S. diplomats. Zyankovich spent more than four years in prison. He was detained in Moscow in 2021, and then taken to Minsk, where he was accused of participating in a US-backed plot to overthrow Aliaksandr Lukashenka and assassinate his sons within the frame of the so-called “conspiracy case”. Later, he was tried several more times under charges of insulting a representative of the authorities and malicious disobedience to the administration of a correctional institution; another two and a half years were added to the term.

On May 2, the upper chamber of the Belarusian “parliament”, the Council of the Republic approved the draft Law “On Amnesty in connection with the 80th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War”. Earlier, the draft law was adopted in two readings by deputies of the House of Representatives. Now the document has to be signed by Aliaksandr Lukashenka. It will enter into force after the official publication. According to preliminary estimates, it is planned to apply amnesty to 7,630 convicts. “The main conditions for its application are full compensation for the harm (damage) caused by the crime and a positive characterization of the person while serving the sentence,” the press service of the House of Representatives said. Like previous amnesties, it will not apply to political prisoners: “Amnesty will not apply to people who are involved in extremist activities, or in the list of organizations and individuals, including individual entrepreneurs, involved in terrorist activities”. In Belarus, the Lukashenka regime is revenging people involved in the protests by actively recognizing them as extremists.

“Viasna” Human Rights Center published a review of the practice of organizing excursions to places of detention for Belarusian teenagers. In 2022-2025, schoolchildren, college students and university students “increasingly visited prisons, pre-trial detention centres and other places of detention” in government-organised tours, human rights activists report. The authorities believe that such events can “prevent offenses” and “form a law-abiding lifestyle”. According to human rights activists, such events are an instrument of intimidation, they violate the right to education and the right to freedom from psychological violence. “Excursions look like punishment in the form of coercion to look at something that brings pain or psychological discomfort, a clash with reality, where you are shown in advance what will happen in the case of exercising your right to freedom of expression,” they state. Such measures do not comply with the “United Nations Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency”.

In connection with new cases of conviction and imprisonment of citizens of the country under a number of defamatory articles of the Criminal Code, the Belarusian human rights community recognised eight more persons as political prisoners on May 1. “We consider the persecution and imprisonment of these persons to be politically motivated and related to the peaceful exercise of freedom of expression”, the statement said. Human rights activists demanded that the authorities immediately release these and all political prisoners, stop the repression and “take measures aimed at decriminalising defamatory offenses and repealing articles of the Criminal Code that provide for responsibility for insulting the state and officials, and abusing state symbols.”

Intensive checks and detentions of Belarusians coming back to Belarus from abroad continue at the borders of Belarus with the EU countries. Long interrogations and inspection of mobile phones are regularly held at the border in search for photographs from protests in 2020 and subscription to independent Belarusian media and social media accounts and chats recognised by the authorities as “extremist”. Those who have been subjected to politically motivated administrative persecution since 2020 come under special control when crossing the border, “Viasna” Human Rights Center reports.

Security forces have come up with a new tactic against persons with a protest background who return to Belarus from abroad. The head of the BYSOL foundation Andrey Stryzhak commented that “in addition to the classic detentions at the border or arrests after arriving home, now the security forces have begun to use the tactics of initiating criminal proceedings and restricting travel for the person involved. That is, the person is not in jail, but under investigation and with travel restrictions.

Mass detentions of persons, who participated in the 2020 protests and those, who conveyed information about the movement of military equipment to the Belarusian Hajun project continue. They are charged with facilitating extremist activities. Most of the detainees are men, and they are being sent to a pre-trial detention centre.

Amnesty International published its annual report “The state of the world’s human rights”, which highlighted the creep of authoritarian practices and vicious clampdowns on dissent around the world. With regard to Belarus the report stated that the authorities continued to crack down on all forms of public criticism and abused the justice system to penalise peaceful dissent. The suppression of independent media and civil society organisations escalated. Torture and other ill-treatment were endemic and impunity prevailed. The enforced disappearance of prisoners was widely practiced. The LGBTI community continued to face harassment. Refugees and migrants were forced across borders with the EU. Climate action policies remained inadequate.

A congress on Belarusian political prisoners will be held in early June. The congress will be attended by “diplomats, representatives of partner countries, former political prisoners and human rights defenders”. “The topic of political prisoners remains one of the central ones. Unfortunately, the situation is only getting worse. Despite the efforts of our allies, the number of repressions continues to grow,” Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya commented when announcing the congress.

Reporters Without Borders has published its annual World Press Freedom Index. Belarus rose from 167th to 166th place in it, out of 180 countries surveyed. Although the situation with freedom of speech in Belarus in the new rating worsened from 26.8 to 25.73 points, some other countries showed even greater regression, which raised Belarus to one place in the rating.

On the World Press Freedom Day on May 3, the diplomatic missions of Western countries called for the release of political prisoners in Belarus and for Belarus to fulfil its international obligations to ensure media freedom. “On World Press Freedom Day, we reaffirm the importance of free and independent media. In 2025, Belarus ranked 166th in terms of press freedom. Journalists are being persecuted, imprisoned, and harassed. We demand freedom of the press in Belarus and the release of all political prisoners,” said Asta Andrijauskienė, Ambassador-at-Large of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry. The Embassies of Great Britain, Sweden, and Germany in Minsk joined the statement. The Delegation of the European Union to Belarus issued a statement highlighting the situation of free media in the country. In the statement, the EU Delegation underscored the “importance of free and independent media and the vital role played by journalists and media professionals.” It also called on Belarus to fulfil its international obligations to uphold press freedom and independence. “All political prisoners must be released,” the statement concluded. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya also marked World Press Freedom Day by calling for support for independent journalists. “The regime in Belarus continues to retaliate against journalists, imprisoning dozens of media professionals.”

PROPAGANDA

The Union State forum “Great Heritage – Shared Future”, held on April 28-29 in Russia’s Volgograd, became one of the central topics for Belarusian state propaganda last week. The event was attended by representatives of the authorities of the Republic of Belarus, who, in their speeches and interviews, actively called for the defence of a “shared historical memory”, warned against “distortion of historical truth”, sharply criticised Western politicians, and, on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, placed particular emphasis on the role of the USSR in WW2. Ihar Siarheyenka, Chair of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus, stated: “First of all, our common history must be cherished. And it must be defended from all sorts of falsifiers, who today claim that the contribution of the Red Army was equal to that of the Allies in the defeat of fascism.” Siarheyenka vowed that they would never accept the position of “Western politicians obsessed with revanchist ambitions to rewrite history and whitewash Nazi criminals and their collaborators”. According to him, Western elites aim to “reprogram the minds of the younger generation”, encouraging youth to “abandon the heroic past of their grandfathers and great-grandfathers”.

On April 29, Aliaksandr Lukashenka personally arrived at the forum in Volgograd and was even more categorical than his subordinates. He blamed “Western specialists” for allegedly trying to impose “pseudo-objectivity” on Russia and Belarus: “Today, in the Baltic countries and Ukraine, young people wave the banners of SS divisions and erect monuments to fascist executioners. And all this happens with the silent consent of the rest of the West. But we must not stay silent.” The politician lamented that the worldview of the “children of perestroika” was shaped at the height of “revanchist propaganda”, when “much was done to discredit the Red Army, the partisan movement, and the resistance on our land, and to whitewash Nazi criminals”. Lukashenka therefore urged even greater efforts to “defend historical memory”, not to relax, and not to take Europeans at their word. He suggested that now is not the time to worry about the potential trauma to children’s psyche and praised the Russian side for actively showing various war-related photo and video materials, adding that Belarusians should also do more in this direction: “You are doing the right thing. We should not tremble here, worrying about whether someone sees more or less… But how else can we explain why we are fighting so desperately for historical memory today? They [children] must see the truth and draw the right conclusions – with our help.” Lukashenka stressed that a new confrontation has already begun – “a war that was not started by Belarus or Russia”. He warned that “the next stage of this war will be a hot war, a world war with weapons in hand. We do not want this. Today, we are still in the media warfare stage. Thank God. We are debating, fighting, battling on these platforms. This is a war for the minds of our people and for their heads.” He issued a stark warning: as soon as Belarus and Russia forget the “path to Khatyn, Stalingrad, the Brest Fortress, it will all return – instantly.” Therefore, he urged people to “cling with their teeth to this historical memory”.

On the same day, the Belarusian dictator held talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, during which he once again pledged loyalty to the idea of “one Fatherland, two states”. “We have exactly the same idea. You know our ideas, and we know the Russian ones. It is one Fatherland, as I say – from Brest to Vladivostok. It so happened – not through our will – that two states were formed here. And we must do everything to ensure that our relations within this Fatherland are even closer than in a unitary state. And we are already doing quite a lot together.”

Military analyst Aliaksandr Tsishchanka, writing for SB. Belarus Today, declared that Lukashenka “spoke the harsh, bare historical truth” at the Volgograd forum, addressing “the conscience of the living”. “Hitler, by launching a hot war, sought to take lives. Today’s European successors, by launching an information war, seek first to strip us of memory – and with it, awareness of who we are, that we are a country, a people. This semantic preparation is nothing less than a prologue to a new hot phase, where the price, once again, will be lives. There, in the West, through the dismantling of monuments, decommunisation, desovietisation, and Russophobia, they are not just erasing the memory of our Victory – they are destroying all traces of the civilisation of the Victors,” the author writes. He believes that Europeans are “infuriated” by the fact that Belarus and Russia have proudly honoured the deeds of their fathers, grandfathers, and great-grandfathers for 80 years. His view is shared by MP Siarhei Klishevich, who in an interview with BelTA accused all neighbouring countries, except Russia, of glorifying “war criminals” and fostering a young generation “sympathetic to Nazism”. He also quoted Lukashenka, who had stated at the forum that Russia and Belarus are now confronting “descendants of those who supported the Third Reich and lost”. Joining the revival of the “modern Euro-fascism” narrative was Belarusian Defence Minister Viktar Khrenin, who at the 3rd International Anti-Fascist Congress in Russia claimed that war criminals condemned at Nuremberg are being equated with those who liberated Europe from fascism. He observed “attempts by Western revanchists to drag the bankrupt Nazi ideology back from the underworld” and asserted that in some European countries, Russophobia has become a matter of state policy. According to Khrenin, “pseudo-historians” and Western media are striving to “whitewash Nazism”, and to do so, they “downplay the key role of the USSR in defeating fascism.”

During the same period, Lukashenka’s propagandists also gave their assessments of Donald Trump’s first 100 days as US President. Yury Uvarau, a columnist for Minskaya Prauda, described Trump’s actions as “a bizarre mix of cowboy swagger and the tantrums of an overexcited lady”. Uvarau claimed that the Republican President “behaves with shocking dishonesty”, placing the blame for the war in Ukraine on his predecessors, while “continuing to cause real harm”. “If he wants peace, why has he extended sanctions against Russia? If he notes great progress in negotiations with the Russian side, why does he threaten with new sanctions? Let me remind you that he recently accused Russia of shelling Ukraine during a visit to the Vatican and said he might impose fresh sanctions. Does he see himself as ruler of the world? Then he urgently needs medical help. Does he really believe this kind of game with Russia is even possible?” The regime’s mouthpieces also did not ignore the signing of a rare earth metals agreement between the U.S. and Ukraine – a development that many of them had previously dismissed as unlikely.

In light of recent events, Belarusian propaganda has now begun – and appears likely to continue – promoting a narrative about the “sale of Ukraine by a delegitimised Zelenskyy”. Initial reports in this vein have already appeared. Pro-government and pro-Kremlin propagandist Aliaksandr Shpakouski wrote on his Telegram channel: “Based on various sources about the agreements between the U.S. and Ukraine, it is clear that the Kyiv regime has finally sold Ukraine to the Americans, lock, stock, and barrel.” Aliaksandr Tsishchanka, writing in SB. Belarus Today on May 1, regretfully confirmed that the U.S. and Ukraine had indeed signed the deal: “Trump managed to push the Ukrainian Zelenskyy to the edge, and one could say he marked 100 days of his presidency with the potential acquisition of resources worth trillions of dollars for the United States.” The author highlighted that “the most problematic factor” is the legitimacy of the Ukrainian side in this deal, citing the “usurpation of power by Zelenskyy”. His colleague Anton Papou was struck by the absence of security guarantees to Ukraine from the United States. “Given the rhetoric of American officials, the ambiguity of details, and the fact that the signed document merely outlines a general framework – with practical schemes to be developed in further negotiations – the situation is far from the rosy picture painted by Ukrainian spokespeople. The era of freebies under Sleepy Joe is definitely over — now it is weapons only for cash and without obligations. Yet the long-coveted access to Ukrainian subsoil is now a reality for the U.S. And despite Kyiv’s desperate efforts to present the deal as a win-win, everything points to the fact that Zelenskyy has indeed sold Ukraine’s future.”

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