MINSK, 13 Aug President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that he saw the risk of a new world war, and stressed that he did not want the republic to become a “battlefield.” “You don’t think that I am deliberately escalating the situation in order to unleash some kind of war. I say that a third world war may break out, this is not a joke, «Lukashenka quoted the official website of the president as saying on Friday. This statement was made during a conversation between the president and local residents in the agricultural town of Tikhinichi, where the president visited as part of a working trip to the Gomel region.
Lukashenko told how the war in Belarus could start He recalled that in history it has happened more than once when the interests of major world players intersected on the territory of Belarus, resulting in wars. “If they get into Belarus, then, naturally, Russia looks at it as its own. on the Black Sea, and near Smolensk. And then all these forces will clash. They — Americans, Europeans — have fought not only with Russia, but also with the Chinese. And I do not want Belarus to become a battlefield, as it always was. We have already had enough of this, «Lukashenka said. The President stressed that he does not dramatize the situation at all, «it is not easy.»
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