After meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was “urgently” brought to a hospital in Moscow and is currently in critical condition, according to Valery Tsepkalo, the head of the opposition in Belarus. Tsepkalo claims that after his meeting with Putin, Lukashenko was driven to the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow.
Who knows what?
Preliminary reports, which are pending to confirmation, state that Lukashenko was hurriedly taken to Moscow’s Central Clinical Hospital following his private meeting with Putin. He is still receiving treatment there, according to Tsepkalo on Twitter.
The Belarusian leader is still being treated by top doctors, he added, who are working to “address his critical condition.” Blood purifying processes have been carried out, and Lukashenko’s condition has been classified as “non-transportable.”
According to preliminary information, subject to further confirmation, #Lukashenko was urgently transported to Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital after his closed-door meeting with #Putin. Currently, he remains under medical care there. Leading specialists have been mobilized to… pic.twitter.com/xTQ1O7Yp2W
— Valery Tsepkalo (@ValeryTsepkalo) May 27, 2023
The former presidential candidate and former ambassador to the United States stated that “the coordinated efforts to save the Belarusian dictator are aimed to dispel speculations regarding the Kremlin’s alleged involvement in his poisoning.”
Health-related rumours involving Belarus’s leader
Health-related rumours about Lukashenko have been circulating for a while.
Lukashenko left Russia earlier on May 9 just after the Victory Day celebration in Moscow. Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, was not invited to lunch. According to media accounts, during his journey to Russia, Lukashenko appeared clearly exhausted and had his right hand bandaged.
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In Belarus’s capital Minsk on May 9, at the nation’s own Victory Day ceremonies, which he had attended just hours earlier after arriving from Moscow, Lukashenko lay flowers.
Later, he made an appearance in public to deny the claims, saying, “I’m not going to pass away, guys. For a very long time to come, you’ll have to contend with me.
Putin counts the 68-year-old as one of his closest allies. According to media accounts, Lukashenko admitted to having an adenovirus, or common cold virus, earlier this month during a conference on health-related problems while sounding hoarse.
Lukashenko remarked, adding that it only took him three days to recuperate and that he had been too busy to take time off right away. “If anyone thinks I’m going to die, calm down,” he said.
Valery Tsepkalo, who is he?
Tsepkalo, a previous leader of Belarus’ Silicon Valley and High Technology Park as well as a prior candidate for president in 2020, tried to register but was denied. Notably, Veronika Tsepkalo, this husband’s wife, was one of three women who organised significant opposition demonstrations prior to the 2020 presidential election in Belarus.
According to the state-run news service Belta, Tsepkalo was given a 17-year prison term at a maximum security facility in April. He too left Belarus three years ago and now resides in Latvia, where he apparently aids female political persecution victims and Belarusian refugees.