Lukashenko sees a “tie” in Ukraine possible after speaking with “intelligent Western leaders”

Russia doubts the possibility raised by its partner: “A tie does not faithfully guarantee the interests of the parties”

Oct. 31 () –

The president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, assured this Thursday that after having been able to speak in recent weeks with “intelligent Western leaders” he considers that a “tie” is possible.

“My latest contacts with intelligent representatives of the ‘civilized West’ indicate that (…) they have finally realized that it is necessary to negotiate in Ukraine. It is possible to achieve a tie,” he said during the Second International Conference on Eurasian Security, which is held in Minsk.

Lukashenko has assured that any type of negotiation “comes down to one person”, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, whom he has reproached for his increasingly greater “ambitions” as the war progresses, while “the West wants to save face”, just as he “could not do in Afghanistan.”

“They can’t leave just like that, they promised Volodymyr Zelensky that they would give him some money in the form of weapons, ammunition and that they would help Ukraine until the last Ukrainian died. They want to save face,” he said.

However, Lukashenko has assured that “Ukraine will not win on the battlefield and the West knows it”, as do the Ukrainian military themselves who “want to put an end to this massacre”, reports the state agency Belta.

Lukashenko has urged the parties to come to the negotiating table as there is a potential for increased tensions due to Ukraine’s “deliberate exaggeration” of the involvement of North Korean forces in the conflict in order to put pressure on the European Union and NATO to intervene.

However, during the same event, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Sergei Lavrov, has been skeptical of this possibility that has been raised by one of his few allies in Europe, reports the TASS agency.

“It seems to me that a tie does not reliably guarantee the interests of the parties, even on a continental scale,” said Lavrov, who has stressed the need to eliminate the root causes to resolve any conflict.

Lavrov has questioned this “tie” in light of Ukrainian interests, which are, as he has enumerated, “the extermination of everything Russian in the broadest sense of the word” – language, culture and religion – as well as for its incorporation into NATO. “Russia has no choice but to protect its compatriots,” he concluded.