Belarusian President Aliaksandr Lukashenka offered to meet his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy anywhere — in Ukraine or Belarus — as Kyiv warned that Russia was preparing a new offensive through Belarusian territory toward the capital and the Chernihiv region.
"If (Zelenskyy) wants to discuss something, seek advice, or anything else, please do. We are open to it," Lukashenka said on Friday, according to the state-controlled media outlets.
”I am ready to meet with him anywhere — in Ukraine, in Belarus — and discuss the problems of Belarusian-Ukrainian relations.”
Lukashenka also denied any plans to involve his country in the war — unless "aggression is committed against (Belarusian) territory".
Ukraine’s president said on Thursday that Kyiv is prepared to take "preventive" measures against Russia and the Belarusian leadership over potential military threats to northern Ukraine, amid a Russia-Belarus nuclear exercise and the consequent tensions with European NATO members, sparked by drone incursions in the Baltic.
