MOSCOW, April 9. /TASS/. Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus addressed "the closest topics" when they met in the Russian leader’s official apartment in the Kremlin earlier this week, the Pul Pervogo Telegram channel close to the press service of the Belarusian president said on Sunday.

In an interview with the Moscow. Kremlin.Putin program on the Rossiya-1 television channel posted on the program host Pavel Zarubin’s Telegram channel on Sunday Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov answered in the affirmative to the question whether President Putin had invited his Belarusian counterpart to his apartment in the Kremlin.

"After the talks and a working dinner in the Kremlin, the leaders continued communication in the Kremlin apartment. Naturally, they discussed the closest topics," Pul Pervogo said.

On April 5, the two presidents held one-on-one talks in the Kremlin and attended a meeting of the Supreme Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus on the following day.

The informal part of Putin’s talks with visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping in March was held in Putin’s official apartment in the Kremlin. As Putin said later, they continued their discussion after the dinner in a comfortable, private atmosphere. According to Peskov, Putin has begun to extensively use the Kremlin apartment since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine.

The book The Kremlin Senate that came out after a large-scale overhaul in the Kremlin in the late 1990s describes many premises of the Senate Palace (the Kremlin’s first building), which has been the Russian president’s official residence since 1991. "Since the president’s personal apartment occupies only a small part of the presidential residence, the building can be conditionally divided into two halves: a working and a representative ones," the book says. According to the book, the working part of the building is comprised of a number of halls and offices, the presidential library, and a situation center. The second floor of the building houses meeting halls, which form a succession of rooms running along the Senate Palace’s main facade.