Belarus will never cave in to Russia's threats to stop transiting oil and gas through Belarusian pipelines, President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday.
"If we want to be sovereign, we must not bow and get down on our knees. If we do, we will never rise again," he said.
"I cannot afford to kneel before them and knock my head against the Kremlin Wall".
He said his approaches differed from those of the Russian leadership.
"They are stinking rich and I am an outsider to them," he said.
