“We are not hiding in the bushes here.
We frankly declared our position.
Neither you nor we wanted war and do not want it," BelTA quotes him as saying.
Lukashenko added that ex-president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko spoke out why he needed the Minsk agreements.
“It turns out he was preparing for war.
Well, then why accuse us that we are to blame for something ... Well, I was preparing for war, so today they are disentangling this situation, ”said the head of state.
He also said that Russian and Belarusian military personnel are preparing as a single army to repel any aggression.
On December 3, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu arrived in Belarus.