LUkashenko: Kiev needs to “stop” if they do not want the complete destruction of Ukraine Lukashenko noted that the conflict could threaten not only the loss of statehood, but also the complete destruction of Ukraine. He called for negotiations and indicated that over time relations between the peoples of Russia and Ukraine will be restored
Alexander Lukashenko
To end the conflict, the parties urgently need to start negotiations, otherwise it threatens the complete destruction of Ukraine, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said, BelTA reports.
“Everything is now in the hands of Ukraine. If they don’t want to die, they have to stop. It is necessary to stop this, because further there will be a complete destruction of Ukraine. This is not what [Russian President Vladimir] Putin said long before the operation that it would threaten the loss of Ukraine’s statehood. It will be the destruction of Ukraine! We must stop,” he said.
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At the same time, according to Lukashenko, over time, relations between the peoples of Russia and Ukraine will definitely be restored, as it was in the history of the peoples of the USSR and Germany after the Second World War. “How did we fight with fascist Germany? 30 million died. Who remembers this today? In Belarus and Russia a little bit, and that’s it? That is, the wounds have healed,” the head of Belarus pointed out.
After the start of the special operation, Russia and Ukraine held several rounds of face-to-face and online negotiations, but by the beginning of summer, contacts had almost ceased. After the annexation of four regions to Russia at the end of September, the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, completely refused to negotiate while Vladimir Putin remains president of Russia. He later stated that he was ready to offer a “public form of negotiations”.
The Russian authorities regularly call on Ukraine to resume dialogue, noting that Kiev does not show a counter desire. “How can we discuss any agreements if the other side doesn’t even want to talk to us? We’ll wait.Maybe some necessary conditions will mature; our goodwill is known, it is not subject to any changes and doubts,” Putin said in October. At the same time, the Foreign Ministry stressed that Moscow agrees to a dialogue without preconditions.
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Kiev calls the restoration of territorial integrity and compensation of losses conditions for negotiations. At the same time, the Ukrainian authorities reject the possibility of concluding “new Minsk agreements”. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called the conditions of Ukraine “unrealistic”.
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