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MINSK, 23 October (BelTA) – Vladimir Zelensky's 'peace plan' is rubbish, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he gave an interview to journalist Olga Skabeyeva of the Rossiya TV channel on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia on 23 October, BelTA has learned.
The head of state was asked whether he believed in this 'peace plan'. "There is no plan there. This plan is empty talk. Russia is an empire. No one will be able to pressure it into negotiating on the terms of Volodya Zelensky's slogans. I told him about it a thousand times at the beginning of the war," Aleksandr Lukashenko said.
The president recalled that he had repeatedly emphasized that the war is going on in Ukraine now, and therefore it is not the right time to play the blame game. "If we are to blame, then you are also to blame. Russia is to blame, but you are to blame too," he said.
The head of state mentioned his recent private negotiations with representatives of the West. "We discussed this issue at length, it took four hours," he said. According to Aleksandr Lukashenko, he managed to convince his vis-a-vis that one cannot blame just one side. "This is colossal progress. They used to put all the blame on Russia and Belarus. Now both sides are to blame. I cited the Odessa incident, when dozens of our guys were burned there, I reminded them that they [in Ukraine] banned the Russian language, oppressed Russians on this land that once belonged to Russia," the Belarusian leader said.
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