The judge also appeared at a news conference in Minsk, one of Russia’s few allies in its war against Ukraine, praising President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime for leading a “country on the rise.”
He claimed that the authorities in Warsaw, under the influence of the United States and the United Kingdom, were “leading the country to war.”
His flight to Minsk was denounced in Warsaw.
“Anyone who flees Poland to Belarus to slander Poland and the NATO community of which we are a part is a scoundrel and a traitor,” said Stanisław Żaryn, aide to President Andrzej Duda. said journalists in Warsaw.
Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said: “This is shocking information on which I find it difficult to comment. »
Relations between Poland and Belarus are at their lowest level in decades. Warsaw has accused the Minsk regime of orchestrating a migration crisis along their shared border, supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine and violently crushing dissent after Lukashenko stole the 2020 presidential election.
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