MELBOURNE (REUTERS) – Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will meet Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday (April 12) to discuss the state of affairs in Ukraine and Western sanctions, information businesses in Russia and Belarus reported.
Russia despatched tens of hundreds of troops into Ukraine on Feb 24 from each Russian and Belarusian territory in what it referred to as a “special military operation” designed to demilitarise and”denazify” its neighbour.
Ukraine and Western governments reject that as a false pretext for an invasion, which has killed hundreds and displaced thousands and thousands, and has now shifted from the gates of Kyiv to the east of Ukraine the place an enormous offensive is predicted.
Mr Lukashenko has insisted that Belarus should be concerned in negotiations to resolve the battle in Ukraine, saying additionally that Belarus had been unfairly labelled “an accomplice of the aggressor”.
However, the European Union, the United States and others have included Belarus within the sweeping sanctions imposed on Russia.
Mr Lukashenko arrived early on Tuesday within the Amur area within the Russian Far East the place he’s to meet Mr Putin on the Vostochny Cosmodrome, a Russian spaceport, Belarusian Belta information company reported.
April 12 is well known in Russia and another former Soviet nations because the Cosmonautics Day, commemorating the primary manned house flight made in 1961 by the Russian Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
