 Lukashenko, World War III with nuclear fires looms on horizon. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said that a third world war with nuclear fires is looming on the horizon and negotiations are the sole means of avoiding it. Through the efforts of the US and its satellites, a full-scale war has been unleashed in a neighbouring country to the last Ukrainian. World War III with nuclear fires is looming on the horizon, he said. It can be avoided only by means of negotiations, he added. You all understand and know there is only one way. Through negotiations, talks without preconditions, Lukashenko stressed. He warned that if the West once again tried to use a pause in hostilities to gain a stronger foothold by deception, as it had already happened before, Russia would be obliged to use all the strength of its military-industrial complex and army to prevent an escalation of the Ukrainian conflict. He added that Washington's policies had placed self-sufficient, in some respects, very strong and truly independent states under external administration. According to the Belarusian leader, the American influence penetrated into the political life of this or that country like a virus, either through the incumbent authorities or through the opposition, as a rule through the elites bogged down in rampant corruption, said Lukashenko.