"Britain is sympathetic to that, the Americans keep backing off on it, they keep coming up with excuses, that it's too technical, takes too long to train - that's not true. "He goes to Chequers and the idea will be that he will press again for fighter jets, which means F-16s," says Clarke, former director-general of the Royal United Services Institute. ![]() Volodymyr Zelenskyy is pushing for fighter jets during his meeting with Rishi Sunak - but there seems to be some disagreement among allies as to whether they should be supplied, says security analyst Professor Michael Clarke. ![]() "We need the international community to be proactive and fast," Ms Tsikhanouskaya said. To turn Belarus on the path to democracy and to prevent Russia from interfering". "I know that he is ill but I am not authorised to distribute his diagnosis."Ĭommenting on the rumours around his health, the leader of the Belarusian opposition in exile, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, tweeted that Belarusians "should be well prepared for any scenario. "The fact that he was sick was obvious even during the parade in Moscow," he said. Konstantin Zatulin, first deputy of the Committee of CIS countries in Russia's state Duma, confirmed to Sky News that Mr Lukashenko is ill. On his return to Minsk he attended another wreath-laying ceremony, but for the first time in his long presidency did not give a Victory Day address. ![]() He left Red Square in a buggy for the wreath-laying ceremony as other leaders from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) accompanied Russia's president by foot to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The 68-year-old was last seen in public on 9 May, when he attended Victory Day events both in Moscow and later in Minsk.Īt Moscow’s parade he appeared unwell and had a brown bandage on his right hand. Mr Lukashenko sent only written congratulations on Sunday's so-called Day of State Emblems, with his prime minister, Roman Golovchenko, delivering an address to the nation in place of the president. Rumours are circulating over the health of the Belarusian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, after he skipped a second key speaking engagement in the capital, Minsk, on Sunday.
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