DISINFO: Latvia, Lithuania and Poland prepare Lukashenko for the fate of Yanukovych
SUMMARY
Latvia, Lithuania and Poland prepare Lukashenko for the fate of Yanukovych. Latvia, Lithuania and Poland have prepared a plan for Belarus to get out of the crisis. “Something elusively familiar in these lines,” recalling a similar plan to get Ukraine out of the crisis during the Maidan in 2014. “I was thrown like a douche,” the ex-president of Ukraine lamented later.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Belarus and the West. The title of the article is misleading. The article is comparing the agreement singed by Yanukovych in 2014 and the proposal of Lithuania, Poland and Latvia to help solve the crisis in Belarus. The Agreement on the settlement of the political crisis in Ukraine is the document, signed on 21 February 2014 by the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and the leaders of the parliamentary opposition under the mediation of the European Union and the Russian Federation. The signing of the Agreement was intended to stop the mass bloodshed in Kyiv and to end the sharp political crisis, which began in November 2013 in connection with the decision of Ukrainian authorities to suspend the process of signing the Association Agreement with the European Union. Lithuania, Poland and Latvia said they were ready to mediate between the Belarusian government and the opposition after Sunday’s, 9 August, presidential election prompted bloody street protests, Lithuanian President Gintanas Nauseda said. The EU continues a step-by-step approach in its engagement with Belarus, supporting its civil society and victims of repression. The protests in Belarus erupted to contest the results of the presidential election in Belarus on the 9th of August, which are considered fraudulent by a large part of Belarusian society. Read similar disinformation cases alleging that Russia has neutralised many Western attempts to topple the Belarusian government; the West pursues Maidan policy towards Belarus to encircle Russia.