"Come on, let's stop.
You don't have to go any further.
Further on is the precipice.
Further, it is nuclear war.
It should not go that far,” he said in an exclusive interview with AFP.
According to the Belarusian president, who lent his territory to the Russian army to attack Ukraine, it is up to kyiv to accept the concessions and go to negotiations, the only way out of the conflict.
Previous talks, which began in the early days of the Russian offensive, broke down, with each side blaming each other.
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"It all depends on Ukraine, currently, the peculiarity of the moment is that the war can end in more preferable conditions, acceptable to Ukraine," said Mr. Lukashenko.
It must agree to "never have on the territory of Ukraine weapons threatening Russia", he noted.
According to him, the term “denazification” used by Russia regarding its military objectives in Ukraine, “is philosophy.
The most important thing is the security of Russia”.
Finally, Mr. Lukashenko blamed the West entirely for this war, believing that the threat he posed to Russia was such that Moscow had to attack its neighbour.
“We have seen the causes of this war, the cause is that if Russia had not outstripped NATO, you (Westerners) would have organized and hit it,” he insisted.
“You are at the origin and you are prolonging this war,” he accused.
According to the Belarusian leader, the conflict would have been avoided if Western countries had given Vladimir Putin "the security guarantees he was asking for", namely the withdrawal of the Alliance to the 1997 borders and the cessation of the rapprochement with the West with Ukraine, which Russia perceives as a threat.
