President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko went to Russia for talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. This was announced on February 19 by the Pool of the First Telegram channel, which is close to the press service of the Belarusian leader.
“The President is on a working visit to Russia. As we agreed for a long time, for negotiations with his Russian counterpart,” wrote the authors of the Telegram channel and published a photo of the plane.
Tut.by published a video with Lukashenka’s motorcade heading towards the airport.
Earlier, the Kremlin announced that Putin and Lukashenko will meet on February 22.
Kommersant, citing its sources, reported that Lukashenko intends to discuss with Putin the allocation of a loan to Belarus in the amount of $ 3 billion. Minsk wants to get access to the rest of the funds allocated by Moscow for the construction of the Belarusian nuclear power plant.
The Ministry of Finance of Belarus denied this information. Lukashenka himself said that he was not going “to ask for something”.