Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said only economic factors can pose a threat to his country's independence.
“I have already said and I am ready to repeat once again: if at least some threat arises to our country’s independence, it will only be for economic reasons,” Lukashenko said at a meeting on the occasion of the Belarusian Independence Day in Minsk on July 1.
This principle has been particularly relevant recently, he stressed, meaning the events in Ukraine.
“I am being told troops will come from the East, while the East is being intimidated that Western troops will come, and it will be dismembered, crushed and torn apart,” the Belarusian leader said.
“As the president, I have to bear this in mind and dismiss neither option, even the most absurd ones,” Lukashenko said.
“But I have always said and I am saying it now: today no troops are capable of destroying our country,” the president said.
“It can only be destroyed by us, by economic reasons,” he said.
