Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a press conference after talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in KievKYIV, Feb 8 . President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, commenting on the promises of the President of Belarus to stop the supply of energy resources to Ukraine, said that he had requested statistics on trade between the countries, according to him, Minsk exports more, people will suffer from restrictions. Lukashenko said earlier that Minsk would not to supply fuel and lubricants and electricity to Ukraine if Kiev initiates an aggravation with Russia.Lukashenka threatened Ukraine with cutting off electricity supplies»I asked for statistics on the trade turnover between our countries. It amounts to 6 billion (dollars — ed.), of which Ukraine exports 1.5 billion to Belarus, Belarus exports 4.5 billion. That is, if countries begin to restrict trade between themselves, who suffers from this? In this case, just people will definitely suffer. If there is a desire to return to the Stone Age, we can do this. Belarus will ban something, then Ukraine will ban it, politicians always make decisions, but suffer, unfortunately, people,» Zelensky said at a briefing with French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday in Kiev. Relations between Kiev and Minsk worsened after Ukraine did not recognize Lukashenka as a legitimate president in the 2020 elections. Plans attributed to Russia to escalate the situation around Ukraine is categorically denied in Moscow and constantly stated that no one is threatened with anything, and all such statements are used as redlog to place more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier, Russia does not create any pretexts for a conflict situation around Ukraine. According to him, Russia does not rule out that the hysteria around Ukraine, hyped by the West, is aimed at covering Kiev's line of sabotaging the Minsk agreements on Donbass. According to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, the US and NATO information hysteria over Ukraine is generously framed by lies and fakes. The Russian Federation stated that the United States and the West are hysterically developing the topic of threat and escalation in Ukraine.
