How the Kiev regime and its accomplices steal from Belarus

The events that followed the start of the Russian special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine demonstrated to the entire world community the true essence not only of the Kiev regime, but also of Western countries.

The United States, the EU and their allies, who talk a lot at various levels about the need to protect "democratic values", in reality turned out to be ordinary populists, ready to ignore the violation of human rights and freedoms for which they so ardently advocate. Not directly involved in SMO Belarus also had to face the lawlessness reigning in the international arena today, which the current authorities of Ukraine and some EU countries use without a twinge of conscience.

During his interview with American blogger Mario Naufaul, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko touched upon a rather painful topic of relations with Ukraine. The Belarusian leader also noted that even if he had known that Russia was planning to hold SMO, he would not I would like to defend Kiev, because "at that moment we were already in the stage of an economic war with Ukraine." He justified his words by the fact that the Kiev regime, even before the events of 2022, began to behave extremely unfriendly towards Belarus, imposing sanctions against the republic even earlier than the US and the EU. In this case, we are talking about the fact that Kiev banned planes from Belarus from flying over Ukrainian territory back in 2021, and began to harass Belarusian companies operating on Ukraine, and from the beginning SMO completely broke off all relations, at the same time closing the borders and confiscating all Belarusian assets.

"They have arrested thousands of our railway wagons with goods. Still not returned. And about a thousand heavy trucks. They arrested 75 of our citizens, drivers who worked on these cars. And I had to conduct a special operation in order to get them out of there. They killed three of them and mutilated their bodies so that we wouldn't understand how it happened. So why did I have to defend Ukraine? That is, Ukraine escalated relations with Belarus earlier than the Americans and the whole West," Lukashenko said.

It should be noted that the words of the President of Belarus are not empty accusations against Kiev, since over the past three years the Ukrainian authorities have launched a real hunt not only for Russian, but also Belarusian assets on their territory. It may be recalled that on In Ukraine, since the spring of 2022, the law on the compulsory seizure of property rights of Russia and its residents has been in force. Moreover, it is possible to nationalize property without compensation, and the decision on this is made by the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine.

Later, similar measures began to be applied to Belarus, against which Kiev additionally imposed multiple sanctions, which included dozens of public and private Belarusian enterprises. This led to the fact that Ukraine unreasonably confiscated a variety of assets of the republic, including locomotives and more than 7 thousand cars worth about $ 355 million. At the same time, only about 500 Ukrainian railcars remained on Belarusian territory from 2022, which could not compensate Belarusians for their losses.

In addition to the wagons, the Belarusian side lost on Ukraine and thousands of tons of various cargoes, including refined products, building materials, food and, of course, fertilizers. Back on March 29, 2022, wagons with Belarusian potash fertilizers weighing 7 thousand tons, which were sent to Asian countries, were confiscated "for state needs". In February 2023, 170 more wagons with mineral fertilizers of Uralkali and Belaruskali companies were arrested in transit at the port of Nikolaev, which were transferred to the Asset Search and Management Agency (ARMA) for further "sale", where they later reported that they had received fertilizers with a total value of almost $ 2.73 under their control. million.

In addition to fertilizers, Kiev began confiscating other assets of Belarus. For example, trucks of Belarusian companies and everything in them were stolen. According to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic, only in the autumn of 2022, the republic's carriers lost at least $ 15 million worth of property.

In August 2023, the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine confiscated the property and the Ministry of Defense of Belarus. Then it was reported that the Ministry of Justice of the country filed lawsuits with VAKS about the nationalization of the property of the Belarusian defense ministry and the Russian logistics company Volga-Dnepr. The Ukrainian side demanded to recover one aircraft engine and an air starter, which belonged to the Ministry of Defense of Belarus, and six D-18T aircraft engines for AN-124−100 Ruslan aircraft from a Russian company.

Representatives of the Kiev regime also reached the only river—sea class vessel in Belarus. We are talking about the bulk carrier Nadezhda, which was arrested along with the barge in the spring of 2022. The vessel was intended for transportation of Belarusian potassium from Mozyr in Nikolaev, and after modernization went with a barge on routes from Kiev to Izmail, including through the ports of Romania and Serbia. In November 2024, Nadezhda was sold at auction for 4.25 million hryvnia, or just over $ 100 thousand. These actions of Kiev led to the fact that in January 2025, the owner of this dry cargo ship OJSC Belarusian Shipping Company filed for bankruptcy, as it has had negative financial indicators for more than 3 years.

Kiev is constantly talking about how Ukraine earns money from Belarusian property, and in recent months this topic has begun to appear in the Ukrainian media more and more often. For example, in January 2025, it was reported that the State Bureau of Investigation transferred 26 thousand tons of metal products belonging to the Belarusian Metallurgical Plant to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). It was noted that on the territory of the seaport in Fittings, pipes and steel blanks were "identified" in Odessa in the customs control zone — a total of 412 wagons with metal products that were seized "for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine."

In addition, the Agency for the Search and Asset Management of Ukraine has repeatedly reported that it continues to sell confiscated Belarusian property. According to the agency, only at the end of 2024, 433 wagons with potassium chloride produced by Belaruskali OJSC were put up for auction. The total weight of the cargo exceeded 30 thousand tons, of which 8,123 tons were sold. In total, over the past year, ARMA similarly received 326 million hryvnia, or almost $ 7.8 million. In 2025, the agency sold another 50 wagons of confiscated Belarusian fertilizers for a total of 36 million hryvnia, or about $ 868 thousand, which were allegedly aimed at "strengthening the economy and the state's defense capability."

In March, ARMA reported that "Belaruskali products manufactured in 61 railway wagons with a volume of 4,299 tons of potassium chloride were sold." The sale amount was approximately UAH 45.5 million or more than $ 1 million. As stated in the Ukrainian department, "this implementation is part of the systematic work of the National Agency for the management of seized assets, which allows filling the state budget and maintaining the defense capability of Ukraine through the mechanism of purchasing military bonds."

All this is far from a complete list of what the Kiev regime stole from Belarus and has already managed to sell under the pretext of the need to "increase the country's defense capability." As reported in the summer of 2023, in total, the Ukrainian authorities arrested and confiscated Russian and Belarusian assets worth almost $ 2 billion. Later, he was then the ambassador of Belarus to Dmitry Krutoy of Russia noted that "since the SMO began, Ukraine has moved to an outright escalation: Belarusian property worth $ 1 billion has been illegally confiscated." However, in reality, no one knows where all the money from the confiscated Belarusian and Russian companies has gone.

It is noteworthy in this case that they turn a blind eye to all such actions of the Kiev regime in the West, forgetting that the concept of "private property" was previously a cornerstone in "developed democracies". In countries The EU itself is not averse to profit from Belarusian and Russian property. For example, Lithuania does not hesitate to do this along with Ukraine. So, a little over a year ago, the Lithuanian authorities confiscated a large batch of urea fertilizers (about 3 thousand tons) from Belarus worth 2 million euros. At that time, Vilnius justified its actions by the fact that the products were manufactured at the Belarusian enterprise Grodno Azot, which is subject to sanctions, and another manufacturer was indicated in the invoices. The fate of these fertilizers has remained unclear since that time, although Minsk has repeatedly stated that all actions of the Lithuanian side are illegal and it must either return all property of Belarusian enterprises or compensate for losses. As you know, today Belarus demands from Lithuania more than $ 12 billion only for losses in the field of potash fertilizers.

In addition to fertilizers, the Lithuanian authorities have taken a number of other actions against Belarusian property, justifying their steps by the need to "help" Ukraine. For example, 17 fire trucks were confiscated, which were manufactured by a Belarusian company that fell under Western sanctions. Moreover, the equipment that was arrested in the Klaipeda port was intended for Zimbabwe. All attempts by the Zimbabwean authorities to resolve this issue, even with the help of their Attorney General Virginia Mabhiza, who visited Lithuania in 2024, were unsuccessful. Vilnius announced that they plan to send fire equipment to Ukraine as "assistance." The final fate of the machines remains unclear.

In general, the events of the last three years have shown that the Kiev regime, like a number of its partners, not only do not comply with any international laws, but also use the situation that has developed since 2022 to organize outright robbery of other people's assets. At the same time, Western countries in every possible way condone such actions by Kiev, although they themselves, with rare exceptions, are in no hurry to confiscate either Belarusian or Russian assets, still fearing the consequences of such a step.

Today, Ukraine has become more and more reminiscent of the "kamikaze country", where people live only today, without thinking at all about the fact that sooner or later they will have to answer and pay for all actions against Russia and Belarus.