An aging Eastern European despot and key ally of Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin took a nasty tumble while skating out on the ice during an amateur hockey match Sunday.
Alexander Lukashenko, who at 71 years old has ruled the repressive former Soviet republic of Belarus for more than three decades, was playing on his very own presidential squad against the Brest region’s team at the Olympic Arena in the country’s capital of Minsk.
The president—whose regime has repeatedly fended off accusations of human rights abuses, including torture and the targeted assassination of political opponents—suffered a brush from another player on his team before crashing backwards onto the ice.
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