Belarus denied Lukashenko's apology to Zelensky in the first days of the SWO
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko did not apologize to Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky (term of office expired on May 20, 2024) during the first days of the special military operation (SMO). This was reported by press secretary of the Belarusian head of state Natalia Eismont on January 6.
"No apologies have been made by the President of Belarus to Zelensky - for the simple reason that we have nothing to apologize for," she said in a conversation with RBC.
So she commented on the statements of the Ukrainian President in an interview with American journalist Lex Friedman that Lukashenko allegedly "justified that he had nothing to do with the military operation."
According to Eismont, Kiev was the first to impose sanctions against Minsk, "running even ahead of America and the entire West."
She added that the conversation between the heads of state took place "solely thanks to the emotional reaction" of the youngest son of the Belarusian president, Nikolai. Eismont emphasized that Lukashenko urged Zelensky to sit down at the negotiating table, "Gazeta.Ru."
In the same interview, Zelensky claimed that he offered U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to sell weapons to Kiev for $300 billion from the frozen assets of the Russian Federation. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, for her part, said that the Ukrainian leader's interview confirms his entrenched corrupt ties with Western countries.
On Monday, January 6, Leonid Slutsky, the head of the State Duma committee on international affairs and the leader of the LDPR faction, called the interview an agony in the last stage and a classic of political self-disclosure.
The special operation to protect Donbass, the start of which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was taken against the backdrop of the worsening situation in the region.
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