Belarusian President Lukashenko points out Ukraine's biggest problem today.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on October 27: “The wise people” in Kyiv should call for a ceasefire and negotiations before they lose everything, as Ukraine is running out of fighting personnel.

“The most dangerous thing for Ukraine is that it will have weapons but no one to use them,” Lukashenko told reporters in Minsk when asked about the conflict on Ukraine’s southern border. “We’ve seen what happened there. At first, you know, the ideologues – the nationalists – they fought. Where are they? The fact is they’re all dead or disabled.”

The Belarusian president said that authorities in Kyiv are now rounding up men on the streets and sending them to the front lines without any training. These conscripted soldiers are ultimately trapped between strong Russian lines and Ukrainian "barriers" preventing their retreat.

Lukashenko added: "People are fleeing Ukraine; nobody wants to fight."

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky purged all mobilization agencies in August, after Kyiv's SBU security agency said it had uncovered a network selling fake medical exemption certificates in dozens of regions across the country. Official Ukrainian sources said nearly 20,000 people were arrested for attempting to leave the country instead of enlisting.

According to RT, Ukraine's major offensive launched in June failed to penetrate any Russian defenses in Zaporozhye, while suffering estimated losses of around 90,000 troops and thousands of pieces of Western-supplied equipment. Russian forces are now counterattacking on all fronts.

Kyiv has also expressed concern that it could run out of ammunition by 2024. Ukrainian officials note that even the entire Western military-industrial complex would not be able to meet its requirements.

Lukashenko told reporters that American help wouldn't last forever, so if they were wise, Ukrainians would sit down and negotiate with the Russians.

"Let's negotiate. About what? About land and peace," the Belarusian president said. He added that any territorial issue – such as Donbass or Crimea – could be brought to the negotiating table "so that people don't continue to die."

This is not the first time Lukashenko has warned Ukraine about the dangers of stubbornness. In a lengthy interview with Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko in August, he warned Kyiv that if they continued fighting for Donbass, Zaporozhye, Kherson, and Crimea, they could lose Odessa, Nikolaev, Kharkov, and no one could say what the future held.

At the time, Lukashenko said that Ukraine could “cease to exist” if the conflict continued, and called on Kyiv to “end the war.”