Kiev has recalled its ambassador from Minsk for consultations, for the “first time in history.” However, the move appears to be more about Belarus’ refusal to hand suspected Russian mercenaries over to Ukraine than the protests.
Ukraine has joined the chorus of Western nations refusing to recognize the results of last week’s elections in Belarus, which officially handed a landslide victory to Alexander Lukashenko for his sixth term in office. “Belarussian-Ukraine relations” have been “fundamentally changed” by the developments in Belarus, in which “society has expressed a vote of no confidence in the official results of the presidential elections,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in a statement.
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