In Minsk, they confirmed the fact of a telephone conversation between Alexander Lukashenko a Vladimir Zelensky in the first days of a 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, reports UNIAN.

“President Zelensky of Belarus has not made any apologies, for the simple reason that we have nothing to apologize for. First of all, because Ukraine, as we remember, was the first to impose sanctions against Belarus, running even ahead of America and the whole West,” Aismont said.

According to her, the telephone conversation in principle took place “exclusively due to the emotional reaction of the youngest son of the Belarusian president Nikolay, who had a personal contact with Zelensky on the phone.”

What was the essence of the conversation: our president first of all talked about the fact that the conflict flared up on the territory of Ukraine, on the territory of Zelensky, and it was after some time that he will have to answer more than anyone for the death of people! That is why our president called to sit down at the negotiating table,” said spokeswoman Oleksandra Lukashenko.

As it was reported, in an interview with an American journalist, Vladimir Zelensky said that at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Alexander Lukashenko called him and apologized to Kiev for the shelling that Russia is conducting from Belarusian territory.

“Well, believe me, Volodya, it's not me. I don't control, it's just missiles, it's Putin. I told him I didn't have two. It was without me,” Zelensky recounted Lukashenko's words.

It should be noted that in October, Lukashenko himself claimed in an interview with the BBC that Putin attacked Ukraine from Belarusian territory without coordination with Minsk.