MINSK, 28 May (BelTA) – Belarusian Defense Minister, Major-General Viktor Khrenin met with Russian Deputy Defense Minister, Lieutenant-General Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, who had arrived in Belarus the day before, representatives of the Belarusian Defense Ministry told BelTA.
The sides discussed results of a prior reconnaissance and prospects of Belarusian-Russian military cooperation in the sphere of combat training.
While in Belarus Yunus-Bek Yevkurov visited the army exercise area Brestsky and took part in a reconnaissance of the areas where the Belarusian-Russian strategic army exercise Zapad 2021 is supposed to take place.
The head of the Russian delegation also visited the WW2 memorial Khatyn and paid tribute to the memory of Great Patriotic War victims by laying flowers at the Eternal Fire.
