"The Situation For The Lukashenko Regime Is Catastrophic."
4- 21.12.2025, 18:59
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The sanctions worked.
Natalia Radina, editor-in-chief of the Charter97.org website, became a guest of the YouTube channel of the well-known journalist Evgeny Kiselyov. The main topic of conversation is the release of 123 political prisoners, released by Lukashenko in exchange for the lifting of U.S. sanctions on Belaruskali. Why did the Belarusian dictator take this step? Natalia Radina believes that the regime urgently needed money:
- The situation for Lukashenko's regime is catastrophic. Western sanctions, which were imposed on the regime in 2020 and then intensified in 2022 with the start of Russia's large-scale war against Ukraine and the use of Belarusian territory for attack, have hit the economy very hard.
The situation for the regime is extremely difficult. Today, despite the fact that trade with Russia has intensified, it has in no way been able to replace the volume of trade that Belarus had with Ukraine and the European Union. That's why it's extremely important for Lukashenko today that sanctions start to be lifted.
I'm sure that Lukashenko officials have reached out to the Trump administration. I assume that it was probably the head of Belarus' UN mission Valentin Rybakov and his wife, now deputy prime minister and former deputy head of Lukashenko's administration Natalya Petkevich. These are the people who have been negotiating with the West on behalf of Lukashenko for a long time, and in previous years they sought the lifting of sanctions against the regime in exchange for the release of prisoners.
I think that it was them who, after Trump came to his administration and proposed this option: the U.S. starts to lift sanctions on the regime, and Lukashenko - to release political prisoners. That's how this trade started.
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