“We are a young sovereign independent state. We got this independence without blood. Perhaps without sweat. Then there was a fierce struggle for power between Yeltsin and Gorbachev in the Kremlin. And many of us, the whole country, actually observed what will happen next, ”BelTA quotes him.
Lukashenko urged citizens not to forget that "our fate is in our hands."
“And we must make our decisions on our fate. Here, in Belarus, ”the president of the republic added.
Earlier, Lukashenko announced his readiness to defend Belarus from encroachments by legal means.