Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said the crisis in Ukraine cannot be settled without the United States.

"It's impossible to stabilize the situation there, I mean Ukraine and other trends, without the United States," the Belarusian state news agency BelTA quoted Lukashenko as saying at a meeting with U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Michael Carpenter.

Lukashenko stressed that this is his firm conviction, which he has stated publicly more than once.