“Russia is afraid of losing us, because besides us, it has no truly close allies left. And the West has recently begun to show more and more substantive interest in us. And China is seriously counting on the stability of its friend, ”Lukashenka said.

In mid-July, the President of Belarus, during a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Minsk, said that the Belarusian land would remain native for the Russian people, and noted that Belarus “is not going anywhere”.