Lukashenko tells CSTO informal summit they cannot be detached observers of Ukrainian events
MOSCOW. May 8 (Interfax) - The events happening in Ukraine, including Odesa, "do not allow us to remain uninvolved," Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told his counterparts from Russia, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan at a Kremlin meeting on Thursday.
"The Ukrainian events do not allow us to sit idle. The Odesa events evoke some bad comparisons. We remember Khatyn, several hundreds of Belarusian villages burned down by the Nazis," Lukashenko said.
"We cannot be detached observers because our people are there, they are pleading for help and demanding a reaction to such incidents," the Belarusian president said.
He said he "was concerned about the totally inadequate reaction of our, so to say, Western partners."
"This is just amazing: what is not allowed to happen in one situation is permitted and encouraged in another," he stressed.