“We are native people”: Lukashenka declared that Minsk was not involved in the escalation around Ukraine

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko declared that Minsk was not involved in the aggravation of relations with Ukraine, announcing that the future of the two countries should be good neighborly. This is reported by the BelTA news agency.

“We pursued a clear, understandable policy for the Ukrainian people. I still adhere to this policy. We are native people, we are neighbors. It’s from God, and that’s it. And our future should develop in this way, like that of our neighbors,” declared the Belarusian leader, who believes that the world media reports about a hypothetical Russian attack on Ukraine and Minsk’s involvement in this are “artillery preparations for an information war”, which is coordinated from Washington.

In addition, he announced a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. It is at these negotiations, according to him, that a decision will be made on the timing and schedule for the withdrawal from the territory of Belarus of units of the Russian armed forces that participate in the joint military exercises “Allied Resolve-2022”, perceived by many Western observers as preparation for the Russian “invasion of the territory of Ukraine” .

“Before this hysteria, we made a decision to conduct exercises in the south of our republic,” Lukashenka added. “We had to conduct them ourselves in order to decide where we should keep a small number of troops in connection with what is happening in Ukraine: this flow of weapons, our fugitives, the formation of camps, training. From there, frankly speaking, there is an influx of these saboteurs.”

Everything on the topic of a possible war in Europe with the participation of Russia is in the materials of Rosbalt.