Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says after meeting Vladimir Putin that the Russian leader will announce a "very good proposal" for ending the war in Ukraine that he says is broadly backed by the United States.

Lukashenko, who met Putin in Moscow for more than five hours, did not say what the proposal entailed but added that it had been outlined to US President Donald Trump when he held a summit with Putin in Alaska last month.

"President Putin and I discussed it but I won't talk about it. The president himself will say," Lukashenko said.

"It's a good proposal for Ukraine, proposals that were heard by Donald Trump in Alaska, among other places, and taken to Washington for consideration and discussion. A very good proposal," Lukashenko told Russian TV reporter Pavel Zarubin.

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