Top Putin Ally Says Ukraine-Russia Conflict Has ‘Dragged On’

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Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko admitted in a Thursday interview that the Russia-Ukraine conflict is dragging on longer than expected, although he defended Moscow’s incursion. Asserting that the Kyiv government was “provoking Russia,” Lukashenko told The Associated Press he is “not immersed in this problem enough to say whether it goes according to plan, like the Russians say, or like I feel it.” “I want to stress one more time: I feel like this operation has dragged on,” he told the outlet, describing the conflict as a “war” several times in his interview. Russian President Vladimir Putin, he added, is not trying to seek a conflict with NATO and said it is Washington that is fueling the conflict. ...

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