MOSCOW, 14 March (BelTA) – Secret phone calls to President of Russia Vladimir Putin were mentioned by Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko in an interview with Olga Skabeyeva, a TV presenter of the TV channel Rossiya 1, BelTA has learned.
The head of state was asked where there are any people in the European Union, who can negotiate. The president mentioned Ukraine as an example. He believes that there are no people like that in Ukraine. “No one. But we still talk to them after all. One has to talk to those, who want to talk. Well, we don’t see such a passionate desire to talk to us, to Russia, and so on. Although I am not going to talk about it. Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin] should do it. He has talked to them. They phoned him and told him things. He spoke to some. A private agreement had been reached about the conversation,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.
The head of state once again confirmed that he cannot share the details until the Russian president reveals them to the general public. “But he has told me about it. And I’ve concluded that if you want to talk, then you should talk. In private for now so that reporters would not find it out. Well, Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin] may risk revealing who made the calls. They called him to talk.”
The interviewer also asked Aleksandr Lukashenko about his attitude to Vladimir Zelensky. The president had referred to the Ukrainian president in different ways: Volodya [informal for Vladimir] and lice. “Well, Volodya was like a son to me. But he acted like a lice,” the head of state noted.
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