His opinion on Vladimir Putin's health was expressed by his ally, President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko.
The Belarusian president stressed his counterpart is healthy, sane and "in better shape than ever", in an interview with the Japanese TV channel TBS.
Western leaders have argued that Putin made a costly mistake by launching the military offensive in Ukraine, where Russian forces have suffered heavy losses and their advance has largely "stalled" despite their apparent superiority.
What Johnson and Rutte had said
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has even said that Putin is "irrational" and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has called him "completely insane".
But Lukashenko defended him - and then some.
"You have to get this nonsense, this fiction out of your heads," he said. "Putin is perfectly capable, he is in better shape than ever ... He is a perfectly healthy, sane man, and physically healthy - he is an athlete," Lukashenko argued.
[/P][BR][BR]Lukashenko also protested the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. "The collapse of the Soviet Union is a tragedy," he said. "If the Soviet Union had survived to this day, we could have avoided any kind of conflict in the world..."
"As long as the USSR existed, the world was multipolar and one pole balanced the other," he said. "Now the reason for what is happening in the world is the existence of one pole - the monopolization of our planet by the United States of America."
Source: in.gr
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