“It will not be possible to bring Belarus and Russia to their knees due to sanctions,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Lukashenka noted that Moscow and Minsk have sufficient resources, technology and intelligence.

Earlier, the Prime Ministers of Russia and Belarus, Mikhail Mishustin and Roman Golovchenko, during a telephone conversation, considered the prospects for cooperation in the context of economic sanctions.

As Alexander Chervyakov, head of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic, said on the air of the Belarus 1 TV channel, Minsk and Moscow, against the backdrop of Western sanctions, are developing joint projects of import-substituting industries, they should be presented in April.