Łukašenka calls for cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, encourages Russia to use nukes

March 31, BPN. Hostilities in Ukraine should be stopped, Alaksandr Łukašenka has said in his annual address to the nation and parliament on March 31.

“People fighting on both sides at the front don’t understand what they are fighting for and why they should die tomorrow,” he said, urging both sides to “declare a truce without the right to move and to transfer weapons, manpower and equipment.”

If the West deceives Russia and “once again tries to use the lull [in hostilities] for its own purposes,” Russia will be “obliged to use all the power of its military-industrial complex and army to prevent escalation of the conflict,” including chemical and nuclear weapons, Łukašenka said.