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The Moscow Times · Russia (exile) · Lukashenko slips to Valdai to see Putin, days after Zelensky's Belarus ultimatum
Reports Lukashenko leaving for Russia on Friday evening for an unannounced meeting as tensions with Ukraine rose, after Zelensky threatened to strike radar stations inside Belarus and then said Minsk had deactivated them. Stresses Lukashenko's line that Belarus will not be dragged into the war.
“Lukashenko said Belarus 'would not be dragged into the war', having met a Ukrainian representative in Minsk to defuse tensions.”