“I believe that Belarusians are very warm people for us, very warm relations. I just thought to whom, nevertheless ... are Belarusians closer to Russians or Ukrainians? Then I understood the answer to this question, the answer is in the names of respected guests from Belarus, ”Zelensky joked.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko laughed in response to this joke.
Earlier, Lukashenko warned that the friendship of Minsk and Kiev would feel pressure from both the West and the East.
In July 2018, the Belarusian leader expressed confidence that no one could break the Slavic unity of the fraternal peoples of the former USSR.
As Lukashenko emphasized, the phrase “fraternal peoples” for Belarusians is “not an empty phrase or a figure of speech”.