The head of the aggressor country, Vladimir Putin, gathered the presidents of Belarus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan at a CSTO meeting to assemble a “pathetic semblance” of the Warsaw Pact. But all this action looked like a funeral, as none of the invited heads of state wanted to board the “Titanic” — Putin’s Russia — and help it, including with weapons.

In the face of the success of the Ukrainian army in the war unleashed by Putin, even his long-time satellite, the self-proclaimed President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, has backed down. This opinion was expressed by Oleksiy Melnyk, Co-director of the Razumkov Centre’s Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes and military expert, in an exclusive interview with OBOZREVATEL.