She stressed that neither the EU nor NATO "are at war with Russia."

“And we all do not want war with Russia,” said the representative of the French Foreign Ministry.

Earlier, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko announced the desire of the West to prolong the conflict in Ukraine as much as possible in order to weaken Russia.

Prior to this, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called on the countries of the alliance to continue to increase the supply of military assistance to Ukraine in order to help Kyiv "achieve victory on the battlefield."