OREANDA-NEWS President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko expressed hope that the events in Ukraine would not escalate into a conflict on a planetary scale. "God grant that it does not grow into a planetary one. It didn't even start in 2014. Then he entered the acute armed phase for the first time," BelTA quotes him as saying.

Lukashenko believes that the origins of the current conflict in Ukraine should be sought before 2014.

In his opinion, the escalation of the military-political situation in the region is associated with the increased militarization of the West, the degradation and depreciation of international treaties.

As Lukashenka noted, despite the signing of the Minsk agreements, the prerequisites for the conflict have not gone away.

"The West has strengthened approaches to the militarization of the region, dragged the Ukrainian side into this story with unrealistic promises of the country's admission to the European Union and NATO. There is one goal — to provoke us, first of all Russia."

According to the Belarusian president, Ukraine was pumped up with weapons and "encouraged to take revenge in the Donbass."

According to Lukashenka, there was also an attempted coup in his country, and bases and training camps were created in the neighboring Volyn region of Ukraine in order to train volunteers to participate in the Belarusian events.