Russian-backed Crimea authorities sign $2.6mn contracts with Belarus

December 26, BPN. The Russian-backed authorities of Crimea this year signed contracts to supply Belarus with goods worth 183 million Russian rubles (about $2.6 million), Crimea’s Finance Minister Irina Kiviko said, as quoted by TASS on December 26.

The contracts pertain to wine, grape seed flour and mink fur exports, she added.

On November 30, Alaksandr Łukašenka told Rossiya Segodnya that he was planning to visit Crimea, which he described as Russia’s de facto and de jure territory.

Russia occupied Ukraine’s peninsula in 2014.