“I talked with several Belarusian journalists, and, not for the record, I told them that if they want to remain independent, they will have a similar war with Russia, similar hardships and similar suffering that we are experiencing,” Respekt quotes the weekly Come on.

He also expressed the hope that he was mistaken in his predictions.

Earlier, the Foreign Minister of Ukraine spoke about the cooperation of the Ukrainian and Iranian parties in the investigation of the disaster with the plane of Ukraine International Airlines in Tehran.