TheAPInterview: Belarus’ authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko has defended Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and says he's doing “everything” to stop the war. He also alleged that Ukraine was “provoking Russia.”
President Alexander Lukashenko also said that he didn’t think Russia’s “operation” in Ukraine would “drag on this way.”
“But I am not immersed in this problem enough to say whether it goes according to plan, like the Russians say, or like I feel it. I want to stress one more time, I feel like this operation has dragged on,” Lukashenko said.“We categorically do not accept any war. We have done and are doing everything now so that there isn’t a war. Thanks to yours truly, me that is, negotiations between Ukraine and Russia have begun,” he said.
Russia deployed forces to Belarusian territory under the pretext of military drills and then sent them rolling into Ukraine as part of the invasion that began on Feb. 24.
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