Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko assured Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that the large-scale Russian-Belarusian strategic exercises West-2017 near the Ukrainian border would not turn into a military invasion, Poroshenko said Friday while visiting the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, an UNIAN correspondent reports.

”I have no doubts in the exclusively good intentions of Belarus. But it is in allied relations with Russia, and there is no confidence in Moscow,” the Ukrainian president said.