“President” of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko again accused Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky of dragging Belarus into the war.

“This little island [Belarus] (not as small as I think, but an island) is peaceful. And you know, they're under pressure. There is pressure. So we must be drawn into this war. Why does Volodya Zelensky behave this way? We were normal with him, on good terms. What is he chanting, what does he lack?”, - Lukashenko said in the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, transmits UNIANwith reference to the Reformation.

In addition, the so-called President of Belarus stated that “a dictatorship like in Belarus will be better than a democracy like in Ukraine.”

At the same time, Lukashenko stressed that if Belarus is still involved in the war, it may not stand as a state. Because of this, he approaches such issues with “patience and perseverance.”

Reportedly in Minsk Confirmedthe fact of Alexander Lukashenko's telephone conversation with Vladimir Zelensky in the first days of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. However, as the press secretary of the Belarusian dictator Natalia Eismont said in a comment to the RBC, there were no apologies from the Belarusian side.