“Cuddled With Girls”
Lukashenko talks about his illness
05/24/2023 12:24 p.m
After his visit to the military parade in Moscow, Alexander Lukashenko has not appeared in public for almost a week, sparking speculation that the dictator may be ill. Now the 68-year-old is back. In Minsk he “reassured” his ministers: “You will have to put up with me for a long time.”
After numerous speculations about his state of health, the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko spoke for the first time about his illness, which he apparently recovered from. “If anyone thinks I’m about to die, calm down,” the 68-year-old said at a meeting with the country’s ministers and governors. “This is nothing more than idle speculation in messengers and telegram channels. Adenovirus or what was it? Yes, adenovirus,” Lukashenko explained.
Normally, this disease is cured “in three days,” said Lukashenko. But he couldn’t get treatment because of his busy schedule: “Sometimes I had to go to Moscow, sometimes to Leningrad (Soviet name of today’s St. Petersburg – editor’s note), sometimes to Subbotniks (name originated in the Soviet Union for unpaid work on Saturday), then you dragged me in Grodno to the square where we snuggled with these girls, sometimes to Gomel,” Lukashenko said, addressing the governor of the Grodno region, Vladimir Karanik. At the end of April, Lukashenko attended an ice hockey game in the city in western Belarus. After that, on Lenin Square in the center of the city, he met several young people. After a short flirtation with the young women – “Well, girls, how about going to the disco?” – he had chatted with them and posed for photos, eh was shown on state television.
“So I don’t intend to die, folks,” the 68-year-old summed up at a meeting with his ministers in Minsk. “You will have to put up with me for a long time.”
Government remained silent
After the military parade on May 9 in Moscow, where he looked battered, Lukashenko had not appeared in public for almost a week. Since the government did not provide any information on his health, there was speculation that the dictator might be ill. Six days later he reappeared. In the released footage, Lukashenko looked unhealthy, further fueling speculation.
According to the Federal Center for Health Education, adenoviruses are a group of pathogens that trigger a large number of diseases, including those of the respiratory tract, the gastrointestinal tract or the conjunctiva and cornea. The viruses are highly contagious and resistant.