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Ukraine war must end to prevent nuclear ‘abyss’: Lukashenko

Lukashenko, aged 67, pinned the blame for the war on the West, accusing it of seeking a conflict with Russia and provoking the ongoing bloodshed [Alexander Nemenov/AFP]

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said that Moscow, Kyiv and the latter’s Western allies must all agree to halt the war in Ukraine to avoid the “abyss of nuclear war.”

“We must stop, reach an agreement, end this mess, operation and war in Ukraine,” Lukashenko, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, told the AFP news agency on Thursday in the Belarusian capital, Minsk.

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