{"id":188822,"date":"2026-05-23T16:14:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T13:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/188822\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T16:14:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T13:14:39","slug":"ukrainian-official-skeptical-about-possibility-of-lukasenka-zelensky-meeting","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/188822\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian official skeptical about possibility of \u0141uka\u0161enka-Zelensky meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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May 23, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Days after Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka suggested a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a senior Ukrainian official expressed skepticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u0141uka\u0161enka is not even a regional player, and therefore he has no influence over the escalation risks emerging today,\u201d Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to the head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, said on the Obychnoye Utro<\/em> show on May 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf Player [Vladimir] Putin wants to use Belarus as a staging ground for an attack, he will do so. Another question is whether this Player Putin has the resources for it. This is not 2022,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Podolyak, who lived in Belarus for a long time before being expelled by the \u0141uka\u0161enka regime, described \u0141uka\u0161enka as a liar and questioned the Belarusian ruler\u2019s claim that his country possesses nuclear weapons. He said Russia had sent a single nuclear-tipped Iskander-M missile to Belarus a few days earlier for a joint exercise and that it would return to Russia after the drill, which concluded on May 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia and Belarus held the joint nuclear exercise from May 18 to 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After observing a mock nuclear missile launch at a military base near Asipovi\u010dy in the Minsk region, \u0141uka\u0161enka said Belarus would not be drawn into war and added that he would not mind meeting with Zelensky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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