Putin Told Lukashenko "no"

The Belarusian dictator abandoned the project he ran with for five years.

At Friday's meeting with the ruler it was announced abandoning the construction of the second nuclear power plant in Belarus, but it was decided to build the third power unit at the nuclear power plant in Astravets, writes "Salidarnasts".

Alexander Lukashenko has been actively talking about the need for a second nuclear power plant for five years. And even when it became obvious that there was no economic benefit from the first nuclear power plant in Astravets.

That is, Belarus didn't even need the first plant. Taking into account the real state of affairs, the idea to build the second NPP looked insane. Why did Lukashenko persistently promote the topic?

The new decision strengthens suspicions that it was, first of all, a PR move on Lukashenko's part.

What should the common man think when he was constantly told that the second NPP should be built? That the construction of the first one in Ostrovets turned out to be a profitable business. Well, or at least that it was not a grandiose mistake of the ruler, which increased dependence on Russia and worsened relations with other neighbors.

Secondly, in the last year Lukashenko was so much concerned about the project of the second NPP that he practically stopped hiding: the new plant is needed not because Belarus needs additional electricity.

In March, Lukashenko said in the Federation Council of the Russian Federation: "If anything happens, we can provide Bryansk and other regions and 'new regions of Russia' with electricity."

In September, in a last desperate attempt to persuade Putin to grant a loan, the governor said that a second nuclear power plant in eastern Belarus would be able to provide electricity to the Kherson, Zaporozhye, Lugansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine occupied by Russia.

And yet, as we can see, his friend Volodya said "no." And it could hardly be otherwise: Lukashenko wanted to use another multi-billion dollar Russian loan, while there is no even a prospect when he will be able to pay for the first nuclear power plant.

Now it has been decided to limit the construction of the third power unit at the plant in Ostrovets - apparently, in the hope to get something out of the Russian budget.

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