The authoritarian leader of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, at a news conference at his residence, the Independence Palace, in Minsk on Thursday.(Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images)The authoritarian Belarusian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, on Thursday blamed Ukraine for provoking Russia's full-scale invasion last year, and he insisted that Belarus was "a peaceful nation" despite allowing its territory to be used as a staging ground for the war.
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