Alexander Lukashenko. File photo MINSK, May 5. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko believes that the Ukrainian leadership does not want to end the current conflict through diplomacy, Sputnik Belarus reports. According to him, the topic of Donetsk and Lugansk was recently discussed in a conversation with the Russian president Vladimir Putin, who spoke in detail about the relevant proposals submitted to the Ukrainian leadership. wants to end the war through diplomacy? So he doesn't want to,» Lukashenka said in an interview with The Associated Press. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
