Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that some 38,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded fighting in Russia's western Kursk region since August, with Kyiv now launching a fresh offensive in the border region.

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.