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Beginning on March 1, 2022, Lukashenko allied Belarus with Russia during [[Vladimir Putin]]'s invasion of Ukraine, sending Belarusian troops to fight alongside Russian troops and providing support to both the [[Donetsk People's Republic]] and the [[Luhansk People's Republic]]. | Beginning on March 1, 2022, Lukashenko allied Belarus with Russia during [[Vladimir Putin]]'s invasion of Ukraine, sending Belarusian troops to fight alongside Russian troops and providing support to both the [[Donetsk People's Republic]] and the [[Luhansk People's Republic]]. | ||
This involvement is due to a debt to the president of the Russian federation, who helped him undermine protests and rig elections to stay in power, Lukashenko has always been reluctant to engage in military aggression. | |||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*Due to the invasion of Ukraine, he is the only leader of a European country that supports Putin after [[Silvio Berlusconi]], [[Giorgia Meloni]], [[Viktor Orbán]], [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]] and [[Aleksandar Vučić]] all turned their backs on Putin. | *Due to the invasion of Ukraine, he is the only leader of a European country that supports Putin after [[Silvio Berlusconi]], [[Giorgia Meloni]], [[Viktor Orbán]], [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]] and [[Aleksandar Vučić]] all turned their backs on Putin. | ||