“We must stop, reach an agreement, end this chaos, operation and war in Ukraine,” Lukashenko, a top ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, told AFP in an exclusive interview in Minsk. “Let’s stop and then we’ll figure out how to continue living,” he said during the hour-long conversation at the Independence Palace. “There is no reason to go any further. Beyond is the abyss of nuclear war. There is no reason to go there,” he said, on the 148th day of Moscow’s attack on Ukraine. Lukashenko accused the West of seeking a conflict with Russia and provoking the war in Ukraine. “You have incited the war and are continuing it,” he said. “We have seen the reasons for this war. “If Russia hadn’t caught up with you NATO members, you would have organized and hit them,” he said, echoing Putin.
