“The beneficiaries of the war have no interest in stopping the massacre within a people that is foreign to them. The stakes are too high, and the income is fabulous,” BELTA quotes him as saying.

According to Lukashenko, the price of one 155 mm NATO artillery shell has quadrupled since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine.

“I would like to characterize the peculiarity of the current phase of the East-West civilizational confrontation as follows: the masks have been completely dropped,” added the Belarusian leader.

He expressed confidence that the appetites of the collective West will only grow.