If I were a Belarusian, I’d seriously consider tightening relations with Ukraine. It’s in Ukraine’s interest to protect my culture since it would distance me from Moscow. And they could learn my language in a week. Not many people of Belarus seem to be interested.

I don’t wanna portray Belarusian as a shallow language, of course. It is just very similar to Ukrainian. Search for a chart of the lexical distance between the European languages.