Natallia Radzina: Lukashenka Belongs To Navinki Mental Hospital

The last statements of the dictator are from the field of psychiatry.

The Polish group of border guards was fired upon from Belarus. A car with Polish border guards came under fire, including two officers among them.

Is it an accident or a deliberate provocation on the part of Lukashenka's law-enforcers? Natallia Radzina, the Editor-in-Chief of the Charter97.org website, spoke about this and other things on the air of the Ukrainian Channel 24:

— I don't think it's just a coincidence. The threat from Belarus to Poland has existed for quite a long time. The so-called migration crisis has been going on since 2021, when migrants from the countries of the Middle East tried to enter Poland from the territory of Belarus. We remember that there were many incidents of attacks, they threw stones at Polish border guards. As a result, Poland built a 200-kilometer fence on the border with Belarus. An electronic fence has also been placed there, but, nevertheless, we see that they have already started firing at Polish border guards. This is not the only case, in fact, of an attack on a NATO country from the territory of Belarus.

In addition, there was a scandal, and now an investigation is underway into how a rocket got into Poland, which could have been launched from a Russian aircraft taking off from the territory of Belarus.

Shelling of Ukrainian territory was carried out, but one of the missiles hit the territory of Poland.

The fifth article of the NATO Charter has been violated, it is necessary to react harshly, because this was an attack on one of the countries of the North Atlantic Alliance.

— What could this harsh reaction be? It is clear that no one will use Article 5 of NATO, and will not shoot at Belarus in response. How to react? Strengthen sanctions, present the last warning to Lukashenka? Due to some reason I want to say “Chinese”, European or NATO warning … Lukashenka openly calls Poland and Lithuania “enemies”, “a threat to Belarus” and allegedly they are going to invade Belarusian territory from there. How to react to it?

— It is necessary to react in the most severe way. The latest “Chinese” and “European” warnings have already worn out, they have no effect on the criminal regime of Lukashenka in Belarus. We see that the fewer economic sanctions are imposed against the Lukashenka regime, the more this regime has a free hand, the stronger the repressions inside the country, and now we see that Russian nuclear missiles are being brought into the country, which Lukashenka threatens to use both against Ukraine and against NATO countries.

Therefore, naturally, it is necessary to strengthen economic sanctions against the Lukashenka regime. Unfortunately, they have not been introduced for more than a year, and they only need to be strengthened. We now welcome the fact that the International Labor Organization at a special International Labor Conference voted for a resolution demanding that Article 33 of the ILO Charter be applied against Belarus. This means the introduction of a trade embargo against Belarus. Now it is important that national governments apply this Article 33 of the ILO Constitution. This can become an effective measure against the Lukashenka regime, which will help both release political prisoners and stop this regime, including helping to withdraw nuclear missiles when they are brought to the territory of Belarus.

I’d like to add that in the event of an escalation of the situation in Belarus, in the event of growing threats aimed against Ukraine and NATO, one can start discussing the introduction of a NATO peacekeeping contingent into the territory of Belarus.

— Lukashenka boasts that he has a nuclear bomb, nuclear warheads, or will have them in the near future. In an interview with Russian propagandist Skabeeva, he relished this topic: “A million people will die immediately”. It seems that he is simply delighted. “Let the enemies tremble” and the like. At the same time, he presented the transfer of nuclear weapons to the territory of Belarus as his own initiative. Lukashenka says: “I didn’t even ask Putin, I demanded that he return nuclear weapons.” It is clear that this sounds like his fantasies, his interpretation of events that did not happen in reality.

Western analysts write that Lukashenka is giving control over Belarus to the Kremlin, but Lukashenka adheres to a different version, that he is the “master of the situation” and asked for nuclear weapons. What does the situation really look like?

— We can see that Lukashenka is confused in his testimony. Either he will control Russian missiles, or he will not control them. Either they arrived on the territory of Belarus, or they didn’t. It is impossible to trust this person, of course. We see that the Kremlin completely refutes his statements about the control of Russian tactical nuclear missiles. I think it is obvious that Lukashenka will not manage them. However, the fact that they are located on the territory of Belarus poses a huge danger to both Ukraine and neighboring NATO countries. I have no doubt that Putin can order the use of nuclear weapons. It is obvious that for this purpose they are located on the territory of our country. Yes, you can say that this is just nuclear blackmail, because Putin is going to place them during the NATO summit in Vilnius.

But the threat is real. In this regard, I agree with American historian Yury Felshtinsky, who said a few years ago that nuclear missiles would appear on the territory of Belarus. At that time, no one was talking about the deployment of nuclear weapons on the territory of our country.

He argues that Putin needs this to strike at the territory of Ukraine or one of the NATO countries from the territory of Belarus, so that the retaliatory strike falls on the territory of our country, and not Russia. There is a certain logic in this. Understanding how insane Putin is, understanding how insane Lukashenka is, such scenarios are not ruled out. The dictator himself, when he says that he will “control nuclear weapons”, is inflating his own worth. Lukashenka is extremely annoyed by the fact that the whole world understands that he is a puppet of the Kremlin and does not control anything even in Belarus today. Therefore, Lukashenka wants to give himself subjectivity, that is why these threats and statements sound.

— Lukashenka’s interview with Skabeeva was replicated by many Russian media. It sounded like absolute nonsense. Lukashenka spoke about “the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the counteroffensive”, remembered nuclear weapons and said that “the end of the war is near”. Allegedly, if “the West does not interfere, we will approach the moment when the war will end”. A typical Lukashenka-style interview, but it was widely replicated by both the Belarusian and Russian media. What can Lukashenka's latest statements about the “upcoming end of the war” mean?

— Lukashenka should have consulted a doctor long ago. To comment on his statements, you need to be a psychiatrist, not a journalist or a politician. In addition to what you said, he said that “three million Russians” live on the territory of Belarus. This is to questions about the numbers that Lukashenka operates with. According to the 2019 census, 7.5% of Russians live in Belarus, which is about 700 thousand, but not three million, even with those Russian military personnel who constantly stay on the territory of Belarus. Therefore, believing Lukashenka and commenting on him is absolutely pointless and pathological.

— I absolutely agree with you that these statements should be better commented on by psychotherapists. And how do Belarusians react to Lukashenka's statements? What do they write on social media?

— Belarusians understand that even a psychotherapist will not help Lukashenka, this is from the field of psychiatry. He needs to go to the mental hospital in Navinki. There is such an institution near Minsk. Unfortunately, Belarusian political prisoners are still being placed there, against whom they use punitive psychiatry, as against the activist of the European Belarus civil campaign Palina Sharenda-Panaiusk. But I think it’s Lukashenka who belongs there.