Russia is offering Ukraine the same things that are happening in Belarus, meaning Ukraine should become like Belarus—with some nuances. Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said in an interview with Japan’s TBS television that was posted on the Belarus-1 YouTube channel, TASS reported.

Lukashenko said Ukraine shouldn’t be a foothold for attacking Russia, possess nuclear weapons, threaten Russia, and ban people living in the country from speaking the language they wish because "there’s a lot of Russians there."

"If they want to speak Russia, please let them do so," he said. "No one should pressure anyone."

"By no means should Nazism thrive there [in Ukraine] so it doesn’t evolve into fascism that we lived through in the middle of the last century," Lukashenko said.