The press secretary of the head of state, Natalia Eismont, opened the 5th firewood cutting championship among the media. "The president, while on a business trip, in the morning and in the evening, like you and me today, chops trees. Now you understand that today our main prize is not only an ax, of course, our new good Belarusian ax, but it is an ax that just the day before, yesterday, the president chopped trees," said Eismont. Lukashenko's press secretary also thanked the participants for supporting "the very course that the president once set."

The press secretary of the head of state, Natalia Eismont, opened the 5th firewood cutting championship among the media. "The president, while on a business trip, in the morning and in the evening, like you and me today, chops trees. Now you understand that today our main prize is not only an ax, of course, our new good Belarusian ax, but it is an ax that just the day before, yesterday, the president chopped trees," said Eismont. Lukashenko's press secretary also thanked the participants for supporting "the very course that the president once set."