The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that former French President Francois Hollande is a random person in politics.
«Listen, I don't want to talk about this person at all. He was a random person in power. And the French people will give him an assessment. They (Western politicians — ed.) always — then (when the Minsk agreements on the settlement in Donbass were concluded — ed.) they lied, now they lie, tomorrow they will lie. Then they did everything seriously, now they want to be in trend. I know this for 130%,» Lukashenko said in an interview with Pavel Zarubin for the Moscow.Kremlin.Putin program, a fragment of which the journalist published in his Telegram channel.
Earlier, ex-president of France Francois Hollande said that the Minsk agreements allowed Kyiv to build up its military power.
Earlier, Angela Merkel, who served as German chancellor from 2005 to 2021, said that «the 2014 Minsk agreement was an attempt to give Ukraine time» to become stronger. Merkel and Hollande participated in the Normandy Four summit, which agreed on a set of measures to implement the Minsk agreements. Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, during a visit to Kyiv in late January, said that the Normandy format of negotiations on Ukraine was a «diplomatic imitation».