“Our military cooperation within the framework of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, Belarus' membership in the CSTO are those stabilizers that have a certain sobering effect on hotheads on the other side of the border.
If this hadn’t happened, I’m afraid that a hot war would already exist on the territory of Belarus,” Lukashenka said.
Earlier, Lukashenko announced the desire of the West to prolong the conflict in Ukraine in order to weaken Russia.