Moment hobbling Belarus dictator Lukashenko ‘begs Putin to provide him with transport’ during Victory Day walkabout in Moscow amid claims tyrant ‘faces paralysis without back surgery in the West’
- Lukashenko was unable to walk a quarter of a mile alongside Vladimir Putin
- The Belarusian grimaced and pleaded with Putin to get him some assistance
This is the moment a hobbling Alexander Lukashenko begged Vladimir Putin and a Russian security operative to provide him with transport and save him from walking at today’s military parade.
Doddering along, the Belarusian tyrant was unable to walk less than a quarter of a mile alongside Vladimir Putin at the Red Square event.
The despot had been shuffling to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Alexander Garden, alongside the Kremlin wall, to lay a wreath with the Kremlin ruler and other ex-Soviet republic leaders.
Appearing in evident discomfort, Lukashenko grimaced and pleaded with Putin to get him some assistance.
It comes amid claims the Belarus tyrant could ‘face paralysis without back surgery in the West’ which he is currently unable to undergo because of Western sanctions.
Alexander Lukashenko appeared to beg a Russian security operative to provide him with transport and save him from walking at today’s military parade
Lukashenko could be seen pleading with Putin to get him some transport to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Alexander Garden, alongside the Kremlin wall
The Belarussian tyrant was unable to walk less than a quarter of a mile alongside Vladimir Putin at the Red Square event
In the footage, Putin evidently orders flunkies to arrange a buggy to move the stricken Lukashenko, 68, who has been in power in Belarus for 24 years.
Putin and other leaders then waited for Lukashenko before proceeding to the tomb.
The Belarus despot appeared to walk awkwardly in Alexander Garden alongside Putin, 70, and could not stoop down with fellow leaders to put flowers on the memorial.
After this, he reportedly rushed to the airport and flew back to his capital city, Minsk, skipping a post-parade ‘informal breakfast’ hosted by Putin.
Lukashenko is considered Putin’s closest ally and has allowed the Russians to mount military attacks on Ukraine from his landlocked state.
He had reportedly begged Putin not to make him come to Moscow for the parade for ‘medical reasons’.
But the Russian leader, who props up the basket case economy in Belarus, was insistent, seeking to show he was not entirely isolated over his disastrous war in Ukraine.
Overweight Lukashenko – who remains in power due to vote-rigging in the 2020 presidential election and crushing the legitimate opposition, jailing its leaders – is believed to suffer from an acute knee problem and a serious back complaint.
Putin evidently orders flunkies to arrange a buggy to move the stricken Lukashenko, 68, who has been in power in Belarus for 24 years
The Belarus despot appeared to walk awkwardly in Alexander Garden alongside Putin, 70, and could not stoop down with fellow leaders to put flowers on the memorial
Lukashenko appeared to be a step behind everyone as he layed flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier today
Lukashenko is considered Putin’s closest ally and has allowed the Russians to mount military attacks on Ukraine from his landlocked state. The two were pictured at the Victory Day military parade in central Moscow today
Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko grimaced as he attended the Victory Day military parade at Red Square in central Moscow today
‘He needs urgent knee surgery,’ Belarus opposition politician Pavel Latushko told NV Radio earlier.
Sources in the president’s medical clinic say he also has a spine problem which is causing him to ‘live on painkillers’.
When he met Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu last year, he reclined on a sofa ‘so puffed up, all bloated’.
‘This operation on the spine is almost impossible to perform in Belarus,’ according to Latushko.
‘It is also difficult in Russia. It is most likely to be held in the West.
‘Both in Belarus and in Russia, the risks of immobilisation are simply much higher. He can get into a situation where he will be partially paralysed.’
Lukashenko – a Soviet era collective farm manager – is sanctioned by the West for his assistance to Putin in the war, and his use of his KGB secret police to crush all democratic opposition.
The leaders of Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan were all able to walk the short distance with Putin from Red Square to Alexander Garden.
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