Zelensky implied that half of U.S. assistance was "lost" due to corruption or lobbying from the side of U.S. companies. Ukraine's head of state said this in response to Fridman's question about corruption concerns in Ukraine.

"I would very much like President Trump's unpredictability to be directed primarily toward the Russian Federation," he said.

"No apologies have been made by the Belarus president to Zelensky, for the simple reason that we have nothing to apologize for," Lukashenko's spokesperson Natalia Eismont said.

Alexander Lukashenko on Jan. 7 claimed rising tensions around Belarus are driven by foreign adversaries and accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of being directed to provoke Belarus into war.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's spokesperson, Natalia Eismont, has exposed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's claims as a "big lie." Eismont denied that Lukashenko apologized for Belarus's involvement in Russia's invasion of Ukraine,

The press secretary for Aleksandr Lukashenko, Natalia Eismont, denied the statement by Volodymyr Zelensky that the President of Belarus had apologized to him in the early days of the Russian invasion.