Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday urged Ukraine to negotiate a deal with Russia to end the conflict, warning that otherwise the country would be completely destroyed.
“It is necessary to stop. We must put an end to this. Because what will follow is the total destruction of Ukraine,” the Belarusian president, an ally of Moscow, warned a group of Russian journalists, on the sidelines of the summit of the Security Treaty Organization’s Post-Soviet press conference, held in Yerevan on Wednesday.
Lukashenko – who said he does not want to put pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky – said “everything depends on Ukraine” when answering a question about the possibility of signing a peace treaty between Kiev and Moscow.
The Belarusian president admitted that this goal is “difficult, complicated, but necessary”.
Today, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov had already said that Ukraine depends on itself to “restore normalcy” simply by complying “with the demands of the Russian side to end the suffering of the civilian population”.
The military offensive launched by Russia in Ukraine on February 24 has already led to the flight of more than 13 million people – more than six million internally displaced persons and more than 7.7 million to European countries – according to the latest data of the UN, which classifies this refugee crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945).
The Russian invasion – justified by the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, with the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russian security – was condemned by the international community at large, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and Russia political and economic sanctions.
Source: DN
