{"id":44757,"date":"2022-12-03T21:25:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T18:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/putin-told-lukasenka-yesterday-that-shoigu-would-visit-to-discuss-defense\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"putin-told-lukasenka-yesterday-that-shoigu-would-visit-to-discuss-defense","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/44757\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin told \u0141uka\u0161enka yesterday that Shoigu would visit to discuss defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>December 3, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka said that Vladimir Putin had informed him about Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu\u2019s upcoming visit to Minsk during a telephone conversation on December 2.<\/p>\n<p> State-linked media disseminated a video clip of \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s meeting with Shoigu in the Belarusian capital on December 3.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cYou know that he called me yesterday,\u201d \u0141uka\u0161enka told Shoigu. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cHe and I had a very long discussion about the situation around Belarus and Russia. He said you would be here, and we would continue this discussion and work out a common position on our further actions to protect our territorial integrity,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p> \u0141uka\u0161enka said Belarus would do everything in line with its publicly-available agreements with Russia.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier that day, the Belarusian defense ministry said Shoigu had arrived at the Ma\u010duli\u0161\u010dy airfield near the capital. He then met with Defense Minister Viktar Chrenin to sign a protocol amending the 1997 agreement \u201con joint provision of regional security in the military sphere,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p> On October 15, the defense ministry said that first trains carrying Russian troops as part of the joint regional group of forces arrived in Belarus. The regional group was formed to enhance Union State border security, it said. \u201cThis decision was dictated by ongoing activity in the border areas,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>On February 24, Russia launched a full-scale war against the Ukrainian people. The authorities in Minsk deny that Belarusian troops participate in hostilities. At the same time, the territory of Belarus was actively used by the Russians to attack Ukraine at the outset of the invasion and in later periods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 3, BPN. Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka said that Vladimir Putin had informed him about Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu\u2019s upcoming visit to Minsk during a telephone conversation on December 2. State-linked media disseminated a video clip of \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s meeting with Shoigu in the Belarusian capital on December 3. \u201cYou know that he called me yesterday,\u201d \u0141uka\u0161enka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-44757","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Putin told \u0141uka\u0161enka yesterday that Shoigu would visit to discuss defense | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"December 3, BPN. 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