President Alexander Lukashenko said Belarus stands ready to do everything under its control to end the war in Ukraine.

"Belarus has already done quite a lot to have peace restored in Ukraine, and we stand ready to even more - anything that is needed to stop this war. If we Slavs don't patch it up by ourselves, if we don't decide by ourselves what we should do, no one will help us," Belarusian state news agency BelTA quoted Lukashenko as saying.

Lukashenko said the Belarusians, Russians and Ukrainians had been brought together by a millennium of shared history. "Tragic events experienced by our brothers are our own pain," he said.

"Seventy years after World War II, there are flames of conflict in Europe again. But what is especially horrible, something that could never have entered the minds of the victors or the minds of the millions of people who were killed, tortured to death in fascist jails, or burned in concentration camps, is that we their descendants would fire at each other, that one would rise against one's brother and try to kill him. But it has happened - moreover, it has happened on land soaked with the blood of victors. It is terrible for those who fell and for those who are alive! It is a horrific pain for the living veterans," Lukashenko said.