What will Lukashenko and Putin discuss in the Kremlin? We've gathered all the inside information
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, who is on a working visit to the Russian Federation, will hold a meeting with President of Russia Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin today. The day before, the heads of state, along with other colleagues, participated in the Global Atomic Forum at the VDNKh exhibition center in Moscow, which was timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of Russia's nuclear industry.
The second day of the visit is dedicated to the bilateral Belarusian-Russian agenda. The heads of state meet quite often in various formats. This can be informal communication, for example, on Valaam Island, as well as official negotiations in the Kremlin or on the sidelines of international events. Only one thing remains constant – not just an allied, but an exclusively friendly dialogue format. Recently, the phrase that there are no unsolvable problems in the relations between Belarus and Russia has become common. Perhaps this is also because Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin simply do not leave any chances for such problems to accumulate, as has sometimes happened before.
The announcement of the upcoming negotiations in the Kremlin did not initially suggest any particular intrigue. "The heads of state will synchronize their watches on the most pressing issues of the development of Belarusian-Russian relations, discuss the situation in the region and the international agenda," the press service of the Belarusian leader reported concisely and in a business-like manner on the eve of the visit.
In a brief comment to TASS, the press secretary of the President of Belarus, Natalia Eismont, stated that the negotiation agenda includes the entire complex of regional and bilateral relations.
Indeed, there are always many issues on the agenda, which is explained by the impressive scale of cooperation. It is enough to recall that relatively small Belarus is among Russia's top four largest trading partners in terms of global trade turnover, and within the CIS space, it holds a confident leadership in this regard.
As expected, the heads of state may also discuss security issues. For example, they can summarize the results of the recently concluded joint military exercises "Zapad-2025" or discuss Vladimir Putin's proposal on the future of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). Alexander Lukashenko has already called this step a brilliant initiative.
Meanwhile, journalists are still interested in when the "Oreshnik" missile system will reach Belarus. It turns out that it is "already on its way".
After participating in the atomic forum, Alexander Lukashenko did not go to rest, but spent a long time in the Belarusian pavilion at VDNKh, where he heard a detailed report from Ambassador Alexander Rogozhnik on the state of affairs in the Russian direction. This included the context of the upcoming high-level meeting.
"The bilateral agenda of the leaders is always rich. This includes the international part. This is, of course, the protection of the domestic market within the Union State. This is also a unified industrial policy, issues in the oil and gas sector. The presidents always have something to discuss," the head of the diplomatic mission told reporters.