Lukashenka Expects Ukraine to Agree to a Peace Treaty With Russia

Alyaksandr Lukashenka stated at the meeting of the CSTO Collective Security Council that he supports Russia in the context of ending the Russian-Ukrainian war. He expects Ukraine to agree to a peace treaty.

“As for Belarus — and I can see today from the reaction of all CSTO members — we support the efforts of Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation in responding to the U.S. proposal on peace and a peace treaty in Ukraine. We very much hope this will happen. Naturally, certain forces in Europe, as we see it, need to abandon confrontation.

But I do not understand how they will abandon it if they are spending such enormous amounts of money on armaments and rearmament. The process has been launched. But I think both the U.S. and Russia will be able to stop this process by agreeing with the Ukrainians on a peace treaty,” Lukashenka said, according to his press service.

In his view, agreements may be reached if U.S. representatives act carefully, since the main points have already been coordinated.

“I emphasize once again: we support your efforts toward a peace treaty with Ukraine. I said yesterday that if the Americans behave like diplomats and real lawyers, this treaty will be agreed upon, because the main points have already been coordinated.

Now, as we say, the ball is on the Ukrainian side. And I think that, given the developments on the front, Ukraine will agree to this peace treaty. Otherwise, it will lose the country entirely,” Lukashenka said.

It should be recalled that last week news broke of a 28-point U.S. peace plan. Over the weekend, negotiations between the U.S. and Ukraine took place, resulting in changes to the plan’s content. This week, media reported on meetings between representatives of the U.S., Ukraine, and Russia in Abu Dhabi.

The Kremlin said it had not yet received the updated peace plan. Special envoy of the U.S. president Steve Witkoff may visit Russia next week. Meanwhile, transcripts of Witkoff’s conversations with Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov and RDIF head Kirill Dmitriev were published in the press, suggesting that the 28-point plan may have been drafted on the basis of a Russian document, and that Witkoff gave Ushakov advice on how the Russian president should communicate with Donald Trump.