Makei's Death: Main Versions, Opinions
- 28.11.2022, 15:39
Could the head of Belarusian Foreign Ministry have been poisoned?
The death of Lukashenka Foreign Minister Uladzimir Makei came as a surprise. The authorities did not announce the official cause of death, which gave rise to various versions. The Charter97.org website has collected the main statements of the opinions of leaders on the death of the Lukashenka minister.
The predominant version, of course, is that of the Kremlin's hand. Adviser of the Ukrainian Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko believes that Makei could have been poisoned:
- Poisoned to weaken Lukashenka and seize power.
Businessman and public figure Leonid Nevzlin also considers that Makey's death was the work of Russian secret services:
- The fact is that it's very easy to poison a person so that everyone thinks he died of natural causes. It is enough just to disrupt the balance of enzymes in his body - substances that ensure all processes, without exception, from fluttering eyelashes to breathing.
An enzyme is produced, does its job and immediately another one is generated to destroy the first one - it happens all the time in each of us. If a sharp dose of the destructing enzyme (insulin, for example) of the pair responsible for some vital process is injected into the organism, it will "burn" its partner (in the case of insulin it is sugar), which is as necessary as air, say, to the nerve cells. The result is death. However, no expert will find anything foreign and unnatural in the body of the deceased that could give rise to the idea of poisoning.
Nasha Niva quoted its sources as saying that Makei died of a heart attack.
The British newspaper The Daily Mirror attributed the Lukashenka minister's death to a meeting with the Pope's envoy:
- 'The death [of Uladzimir Makei] came mysteriously the day after he met the Pope's envoy Ante Jozic, where they reportedly discussed a secret peace plan to end the war in Ukraine,' the publication said. The paper noted that Makei was "the only channel of communication between the official Minsk and the West".
The author of the article, citing sources, noted that "Makei's health condition was fine".
An unexpected version was voiced by former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko. He believes Makei might have been an FSB agent:
- We have to look at what happened to Mr. Makey in the already distant 1980. He started working for the USSR KGB from that moment on. And was a career KGB agent. Yes, he knew foreign languages, he graduated from the Institute of Foreign Languages in Minsk. That is exactly what was required by the KGB to use such a young guy for their purposes. And he had a pretty good career: in less than 12 years he had become an entire colonel.
This did not mean that he was the brightest crayon in the box, but it did say that he was making good progress up this KGB ladder.
The USSR collapsed then, but the KGB did not. It remained. They changed it to FSB in Russia and did not even change its name in Belarus. And I think Moscow decided that such a fairly promising officer was needed in Belarus.
It seems to me that the hand of Moscow is obvious in this case. It is difficult to say how it happened in the last days, but it is noteworthy that he died two days after the end of this very CSTO gathering. I believe that Novichok (chemical weapon - ed.) is alive and well and in the arsenal of the Russian special services.
Many people think that Makey's death is the Kremlin's signal to Lukashenka. This version is supported by the Ukrainian journalist Dmitri Gordon:
- Lukashenka's life is in great danger, he is on the verge of physical elimination.
I am convinced that Lukashenka knows it. An interesting performance is being staged before our eyes. We can see the physical elimination. And again, he has always had blood pressure, he suffers from hypertension. A heart attack or a stroke and there is no man.