MINSK, 23 June (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has gone to Russia on a working trip. The aircraft with the head of state on board has left the Minsk National Airport, BelTA has learned.
Aleksandr Lukashenko and sons are expected to attend an army parade in Moscow on 24 June. The parade will take place in Red Square. Apart from Russian military the parade will feature representatives of 13 countries, including a parade unit from Belarus.
BelTA reported earlier that the army parade to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 in Belarus took place on 9 May. About 3,000 military personnel and over 150 vehicles took part in the parade. As many as 36 aircraft and helicopters flew over the nation's capital. During the parade Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “This holiday is sacred for us. The tragedy of the Belarusian nation, which bore the titanic burden of losses and destruction of the cruelest war of the 20th century, is incomparable to any hardships of today.”
Prior to the visit to Moscow the head of state took part in a series of commemorative events. On 20 June Aleksandr Lukashenko participated in the opening a memorial complex in the village of Borki, Kirovsk District. The complex was erected in memory of the burned-down villages of Mogilev Oblast. The next day Aleksandr Lukashenko visited Svetlogorsk District where the memorial complex Ola was unveiled at the site of the village of Ola, which was burned down by the Nazi during the war.
On 22 June, the day of the start of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, the head of state went to Brest. Aleksandr Lukashenko visited the Brest Fortress where a commemorative event took place following the established tradition at the hour of the beginning of the war.
