God help the Belarusian authorities not to have another "Donbas" on their territory, Zelensky stressed.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has referred to Belarus' decision to hand over to Russia the group of Wagner Private Military Company troops, earlier detained in Minsk, "unfair, to put it mildly".
The head of state took to social networks to post the relevant statement, employing caps lock to stress his point.
In my opinion, this is a strange, politically incorrect, and definitely unacceptable thing to do in friendly interstate relations
"In my opinion, this is a strange, politically incorrect, and definitely unacceptable thing to do in friendly interstate relations," Zelensky wrote on Facebook.
"First, speaking out publicly of Ukraine's alleged interference in Belarus' internal processes. This was definitely not the case. And secondly, PEOPLE WHO ARE ACTUALLY INVOLVED IN DEFINITE INTERFERENCE IN THE AFFAIRS BOTH OF BELARUS AND UKRAINE - primarily Ukraine - ARE DEMONSTRATIVELY HANDED OVER," Zelensky wrote.
God help the Belarusian authorities not to have another burning blood-shedding Donbas on their territory that all those Wagner troops are able to create
He added that "this is a bad story, in which trust, objectivity, and adequate assessment of the negative consequences were clearly neglected."
Zelensky said that Belarus had left without response the appeal of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office to extradite to Kyiv 28 fighters with the Russian PMC, who had been active participants in the war against Ukraine.
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Zelensky warned of "tragic consequences" the decision could entail as Wagner troops will once again get back to their usual thing of "spreading war".
"God help the Belarusian authorities not to have another burning blood-shedding Donbas on their territory that all those Wagner troops are able to create," Zelensky stressed.
Wagner PMC in Belarus