Dramatic footage captures the moment rockets hit an amusement park in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fire crews eventually contained the fire and one woman suffered shrapnel wounds from the shelling, according to State Emergency Services.
on Thursday, but said he didn't expect it to"drag on this way" and that he was doing"everything" to stop the war.
"But I am not immersed in this problem enough to say whether it goes according to plan, like the Russians say, or like I feel it," Lukashenko told the AP in a sit-down interview at Independence Palace in Minsk."I want to stress one more time: I feel like this operation has dragged on." "We categorically do not accept any war. We have done and are doing everything now so that there isn't a war. Thanks to yours truly, me that is, negotiations between Ukraine and Russia have begun," Lukashenko told the AP.
"We do not threaten anyone and we are not going to threaten and will not do it," he said."Moreover, we can't threaten -- we know who opposes us, so to unleash some kind of a conflict, some kind of war here in the West is absolutely not in the interests of the Belarusian state. So the West can sleep peacefully."
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