The talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko have lasted more than five hours, RIA Novosti reported.

During their meeting in Sochi, Russia, the two presidents had already discussed the situation with the Ryanair plane which had landed in Minsk on May 23 after receiving information about a bomb. According to Lukashenko, the reaction of Western countries to this incidents testifies to their attempt to destabilize the situation in Belarus, as it happened in August 2020, too.

In turn, Putin recalled that in 2013, the plane of then Bolivian President Evo Morales had to land in Vienna due to reports that former CIA agent Edward Snowden was on board, who is accused in the US of leaking state secrets. The Russian President noted that this incident had not caused such a heated reaction among the Western partners.

And Lukashenko, for his part, noted that he intends to show his Russian colleague "some documents" related to the situation of the aforesaid Ryanair plane.