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A slip in May. Then apologies in. In just one month, the Belarusian president has completely changed his discourse concerning his counterpart and neighbor Volodymyr Zelensky. After having qualified the Ukrainian president as a drug addict at the end of May, assuring that he was injecting himself or that he had smoked too much on a Russian television channel, Alexander Lukashenko finally did so in an interview granted in mid-June, this time to the Al Arabia channel. In May, his controversial statement followed a declaration by Ukraine affirming that it had identified around 500 targets on Belarusian territory, should Minsk decide to get involved alongside Russia in the conflict. But it is a response to what the statements are not. "Yes, we have 500 of the fight, we know where Lukashenko is, we had the aircraft, we will have the air to arrive with. With the war against Russia bogging down, Ukraine now fears that Belarus will become more involved by installing infrastructure, training grounds, or surveillance systems to support the Kremlin's offensives. And so recently, Ukraine had consolidated its defenses along its border with Belarus. There is a possibility of preemptive use to support Russian territories. The offensives can be scared. And in the property of the arrival of Belarus, which must be in progress. That is to say, there are really consequences if they are aggressive against Ukraine, against our people. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Minsk has been one of Vladimir Putin's main allies. The Russians even passed through Belarus during their offensive in February 2022. We remember that in 1922. We do not remember the University of the Republic. We do not remember what we. A Sile Oborone, Sile Bezpéki, our defenders know, the dangers and the dangers and which are For the moment, the Belarusian president seems to want to de-escalate the situation. During this last interview, Lukashenko assured that his country was not a military threat to Ukraine, even calling on the Kremlin to make compromises with Kyiv. For the opposition figure in exile Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, this change of tone would above all testify to Ukraine's resistance against Russia. First, Lukashenko called on Ukraine to surrender. Now he apologizes to President Zelensky. That is what Ukraine's strength has achieved. The day before, on June 18, Kyiv had carried out the most significant attack against Moscow in at least two years, hitting one of Russia's largest oil refineries with drones. At least 17 people, including two children, were injured in the Moscow region during these bombings, attacks to which Russia responded immediately, striking the Kharkiv region the very next day, causing 10 injuries and 3 deaths in Ukraine that day.