Saint-Petersburg. December 29. INTERFAX - Russia and Belarus will hold joint military exercises in the first quarter of 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
"As you suggested, we will hold it at the beginning of the year, the military will agree. In March, February, I don't know when they will decide," he said at a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko.
This is how Putin reacted to Lukashenka's proposal not to stop joint exercises and to continue training the Belarusian military to work with new samples of equipment purchased in the Russian Federation.