 Putin to try to persuade Lukashenko to participate directly in the war. Oleksii Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, believes that at their next meeting Vladimir Putin will again try to persuade the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, to directly participate in the war against Ukraine. The country of Belarus has long been occupied by the Russian Federation. This is a proven fact. Lukashenko does his best not to be forced to take an active, direct part for Belarus in the war against our people. I think that there will be another meeting on Friday with Lukashenko. When Lukashenko will be forced to change his point of view, at the same time, that Danilov noted that as soon as Belarus represented by Lukashenko changes its position. It will be the end of the country in the form in which it currently exists. Danilov also recalled that until now, meetings between Putin and Lukashenko regarding the direct participation of Belarus in the war with Ukraine have not reaped any fruit for Russia. On the 7th of February, Belarusky Hadzhun, an independent Belarusian military monitoring media outlet reported that currently there are no active movements of Russian military personnel in the border areas of Belarus with Ukraine, which may indicate that there are no signs of preparing an offensive from that direction. On the 14th of February, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Lukashenko and Putin might meet again on the 17th of February. Alexander Lukashenko spoke about those who do not want peace in Ukraine and also named the reasons for Belarus to use its army as he met with foreign and Belarusian journalists in Minsk on the 16th of February. I am ready to fight together with the Russians from the territory of Belarus only in one case, if at least one soldier sets foot in Belarus to kill my people. If they commit aggression against Belarus, the answer will be immediate. The war will acquire a completely different scale than the Belarusian leader said. Alexander Lukashenko added that this pertained only to Ukraine, but also to other neighbors of Belarus.