Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko jokingly told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that he hoped for some rest, but “life doesn't allow us to relax much.” “I thought, probably since you held your Direct Line, and I spoke at the All-Belarusian Assembly, perhaps we completed the main events and could somehow relax. But nothing like that. Life doesn't allow us to relax much,” Lukashenko told Putin as the pair met on the sidelines of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council summit. #Russia

🇧🇾 Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko jokes that he's still waiting for Vladimir Putin to appoint him as a colonel after he served in the Soviet army. “Putin is a colonel, he promised to appoint me as colonel - he still hasn’t done it,” Lukashenko said in an interview. | Euronews English