“To enslave Ukraine, to bind it with maximum financial and political obligations, which, unfortunately, will turn Ukraine into a colony,” he said in an interview with the Belarusian ONT TV channel.

According to Medinsky, Kyiv is well aware of the price of assistance provided to Ukraine by Western countries.

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) proceed from the fact that it will not be them who will pay, but the next generations,” he said.

Medinsky also noted that the initiative to freeze Russian-Ukrainian negotiations comes from Kyiv.