MINSK. Oct 4 (Interfax) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said during a trip to the Brest region his key task is to prevent Belarus's involvement in an armed conflict.
"We are on the frontline: there is a conflict being fought very close, behind the fence. My key task is to prevent Belarus from being drawn into this fight, into this conflict," the Belarusian state-run news agency BelTA quoted Lukashenko.
He said he has to give a lot of attention to the situation at the border with Ukraine in order not to miss an unexpected strike, which happened to the former Soviet Union at the start of the Great Patriotic War.
"We are not going to fight the Ukrainians. They do not want to fight us either. We will do everything we can to co-exist with Ukraine peacefully. If they want that. This is what people want," he said.