Belarusian President has been taken to hospital after meeting with Putin. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was rushed to a hospital in Moscow after meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
In a Saturday Telegram post, Belarus 2020 presidential candidate Valery Tsepkalo claimed that Lukashenko was in critical condition at Moscow’s Central Clinical Hospital and that the information his team obtained needed more information and had not been confirmed, according to American weekly news magazine Newsweek.
“According to the information we have, which requires additional confirmation, Lukashenko after a meeting with Putin behind closed doors, was urgently taken to the Central Clinical Hospital of Moscow, where he is currently staying,” Tsepkalo said in a Telegram post.
“The best specialists were sent to return him (Lukashenko) from a condition assessed by doctors as critical,” he added.
Tsepkalo’s message on Telegram further said, “The organized measures to rescue the Belarusian dictator were aimed at averting speculation about the possible involvement of the Kremlin in his poisoning.” He said that doctors have warned of a possible recurrence of relapses, as per the news report.
As Belarusian President has been taken to hospital after meeting with Putin, rumours about Lukashenko’s health circulated in the weeks following his participation at the Victory Day event in Moscow’s Red Square on May 9. Lukashenko, Belarus’s president since 1994, denied the claims, saying, “I’m not going to die, guys.”
According to the Russian news agency TASS, Russia reached a contract with the Lukashenko regime last week to formalise the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.
Also read: Vladimir Putin narrowly escapes murder attempt
The Russian and Belarusian defence ministers signed paperwork outlining the procedures for storing Russian nuclear weapons at a designated site on Belarusian soil, according to the Belarusian Defence Ministry.
“During the meeting, documents determining the procedure for keeping Russian non-strategic nuclear weapons in a special storage facility on the territory of the Republic of Belarus were signed,” the ministry’s press service said.
The measures taken by Russia and Belarus “comply with all existing international legal obligations,” it stressed. The defence ministers discussed the current military and political situation and issues of military and technical cooperation between the two countries.
