“President Volodymyr Zelenskyi told how on the second or third day of the full-scale war, the self-proclaimed president of Belarus, Oleksandr Lukashenko, apologized in a telephone conversation for the strikes on Ukraine by Russian missiles from Belarusian territory and offered to strike the Mozyr Oil Refinery in response.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Zelensky in an interview with American podcaster Lex Friedman
Direct speech: “A little later, a few days later, in the first days of the war, I spoke to Lukashenka on the phone, and he apologized. He said: “It’s not me. Rockets were launched from my territory, and Putin launched them.” These are his words, I have witnesses. He said: “I’m sorry. Believe me, Volodya, it’s not me. I don’t control it, it’s just rockets, it’s Putin”…
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I told him: “You are the same killer, and I’m just telling you.” And he told me: “Understand, you can’t fight with the Russians.” I told him: “We never fought. Rockets came from your land, from Belarus. How did you allow it?”.
He says, “Okay, answer back.” I still remember him saying to me: “A blow to the oil refinery. You know how much it means to me.” Mozyr plant. I say to him: “What are you talking about? What is the answer?”.
Details: Zelensky specified that this conversation took place “on the second or third day of the war.”