Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the flower laying ceremony held at the Victory Monument in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. In this respect reported RIA Novosti correspondent.
Russian leader reached He will pay an official visit to Belarus on May 23. Putin was personally welcomed by his colleague Alexander Lukashenko. They met immediately at the airport and then continued to communicate in an informal setting.
On Friday, Putin and Lukashenko will hold talks in narrow and expanded formats. Lukashenko’s press service states that the main topic of the negotiations will be Russian-Belarusian integration, including the implementation of decisions taken by the Supreme State Council of the Union State.
Putin before his Minsk trip spent He met with Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and congratulated him on his Name Day. The statement states that the event took place on May 23 in the Patriarchal Chambers on the territory of the Kremlin. After the meeting, the Russian leader went to the capital of Belarus for a working visit.
Before that, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov reached He is heading to Minsk, where he is scheduled to hold a working meeting with the head of the Belarusian Ministry of Defense, Viktor Khrenin.