Alexander Lukashenko. Stock photo: Getty Images
Alexander Lukashenko, the self-proclaimed president of Belarus, believes that Crimea does not legally belong to Russia.
Source: Lukashenko in an interview with Russian media
Quote: “Crimea is de facto Russian, but de jure it is not. Because legally, these issues are unilaterally settled.”
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Details: He said that the problem is that the international community does not recognise the peninsula as Russian territory.
When asked by a journalist whether Lukashenko would go to Crimea, he said that he was not afraid to go there but that there was no need for such a trip at the moment.
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