Russian Allies Get Tongue-Lashing at Putin's Ultimate Pity Party
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Russian Allies Get Tongue-Lashing at Putin’s Ultimate Pity Party
Several heads of state allied to Russia were scolded in Moscow on Monday for not doing enough to support Vladimir Putin’s disastrous war.
Shannon Vavra
National Security Reporter
Published May. 16, 2022 3:06PM ET
Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted a meeting of the Russian-led military alliance, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), on Monday on the 30th anniversary of its founding—but the meeting was anything but celebratory.
Instead, the heads of state from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, which make up the collective defense organization, akin to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, went to the Kremlin Monday in Moscow to lament the world’s response to Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, sitting in a massive room with sweeping high ceilings and ornate, gold-covered walls, whined about “hellish” sanctions from the West and efforts to isolate Russia and Belarus—which has been supporting Putin’s military moves in Ukraine—from the rest of the world.
“Belarus and Russia… are being defamed and excluded from international organizations at the whim of the West,” Lukashenko said.
In a joint statement, the CSTO also stated that it is concerned about “external borders of the CSTO,” noting that they maintain “readiness to ensure the security of the borders.”
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