{"id":143434,"date":"2025-06-20T17:13:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/143434\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"lukasenka-meets-with-russias-chief-investigator","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/143434\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0141uka\u0161enka meets with Russia\u2019s chief investigator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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June 20, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Russia can count on Belarus, Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka said in Minsk at a meeting with the visiting head of the Russian Investigative Committee, Aleksandr Bastrykin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI want you to understand that in this difficult time we are with you,\u201d \u0141uka\u0161enka said, according to his press office. \u201cWe, the only state in the world, did not hide that we are with Russia. We were, are, and will always be with you,\u201d he said in an apparent reference to Minsk\u2019s support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bastrykin said he came to Minsk to take part in a conference of the investigative agencies of Belarus and Russia \u201con current criminal cases.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale war against Ukraine from Belarusian territory with direct backing of the regime in Minsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On July 21, 2022, \u0141uka\u0161enka told AFP <\/em>that Moscow had sent a 20,000-strong army from Belarus to Ukraine. The Ukrainians have since liberated the northern part of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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