Iran Press/ Europe: "I’m saying this to you right now: This conflict needs to be stopped. No one needs it. People are dying. It needs to be stopped," Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview with The Associated Press.
"I know Russia’s position 100%. I can imagine the West’s position. The interests have clashed and you don’t even deny it," he added.
"I’d like the West to hear. Bad [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, good Putin. Russia’s right or wrong. I repeat: Now is not the time to discuss this question. We need to stop the war now. We’ll figure out things later," the Belarusian president went on to say.
"Make a conciliatory gesture to ‘bad’ Putin, make it. No one needs war," Lukashenko concluded.
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