Putin 'REGRETS' triggering full-scale war which has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and 'didn't expect it to turn out like this', dictator's ally Alexander Lukashenko admits

Daily Mail ^ | 3/5/2025 | WILL STEWART

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Vladimir Putin 'regrets' triggering a full-scale war costing hundreds of thousands of lives, his closest international ally has claimed.

Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko said: 'We haven't talked about it, but I know him well.

'Putin didn't expect it would turn into such a war.'

The close Putin crony told interviewer Mario Nawfal on X: 'When he saw a huge number of people dying, Putin instantly agreed to the negotiations to stop the conflict.'

This was earlier in the war, in 2022, and, Lukashenko claimed, Putin was ready to negotiate 'on NATO, on demilitarisation, on denazification', as he described it, 'on not killing [Ukraine's] Russian speakers, on not cracking down on the Russian language in Ukraine'.

'It was all on the agenda. He wanted to negotiate when he saw what it had turned into.

'So I think he probably regrets it turning into such a full-scale conflict, a war, which he probably did not expect.'

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Knee deep lying BS