Shortly after Russia's full-scale invasion began, Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko apologized to President Zelensky over the country's involvement in the war, Zelensky revealed in an interview with American podcaster Lex Fridman published on Jan.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy revealed that on the second or third day of Russia's full-scale invasion, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko apologised in a phone call for missile strikes on Ukraine launched from Belarusian territory and even proposed retaliating by striking the Mozyr Oil Refinery in Belarus.

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko rang the alarm bell saying that Russia and NATO, for example, could go from an unintentional local conflict to a nuclear war in just a few minutes. The West did not heed these words of the Belarusian leader.