MINSK. May 6 (Interfax) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he would like Russians to be able to watch the Victory parade in Minsk on May 9 on their national television.
"We must ask that Russian television broadcasters show our parade to Russians. They are our blood brothers after all," Lukashenko said on Tuesday.
Some presidents who were invited in Minsk may not come in order not to violate the restrictions they imposed themselves, he said. "They enacted a quarantine, a curfew [in certain countries] and so forth. And suddenly, let's go to Belarus," Lukashenko said.
The pandemic, among other things, is currently used as a factor in global politics, he said. "And the worst is yet to come when it ends," he said.
Lukashenko earlier invited the heads of other former Soviet Union states to come to Minsk for the Victory Day parade on May 9.
"I extend my public invitation to the heads of the states at least of the former Soviet Union to come to Minsk. It would be right to gather in Minsk. It is the republic, which was wiped off the map, which faced the attack first. It is the most affected republic, a living monument to the war," Lukashenko as said on Tuesday.