‘No poison on his plate’: Lukashenka kids Putin about Litvinenko’s murder


In 2006, Belarusian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka jokingly warned Mikheil Saakashvili against eating something in London, Georgia’s former president said in a recent BBC documentary film about Vladimir Putin.

The dialogue which took place in the presence of Vladimir Putin after the CIS summit in Minsk, happened to be after the murder of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned with polonium in a London sushi bar. British authorities came to the conclusion that Russian special services had had a hand in the murder.

After the summit, Saakashvili was going to London to meet with the then British Prime Minister.

“Putin was sitting in the middle, I was sitting on the right of him, and Lukashenka – on the left. Lukashenks has the habit to tease Putin from time to time. And he said: „Misha, you are going to London, you should eat unfil full here. I would advise you not to eat anything at all in London. I recommend against eating sushi, steer clear of them!” And he added that the safest food was on a plate of Vladimir Vladimirovich, there was definitely no poison on it. And he moved Putin’s plate closer to me,” Saakashvili said.

According to the ex-president of Georgia, this joke made Putin furious – he even dropped his fork and said that he had nothing to do with the murder of Litvinenko.

It is to be recalled that Prime Minister Theresa May has announced on Wednesday that the United Kingdom would expel 23 Russian diplomats as a response to the Salisbury incident.

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