Putin, Lukashenko greet crowd together, a month after Wagner rebellion

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarus counterpart Alexander Lukashenko met a crowd of people in Russia’s Kronstadt town on Kotlin Island, in a rare walkabout for the longtime leaders a month after a deal to end a dramatic Wagner munity in Russia.

Russia’s Kommersant newspaper posted a video of Putin and Lukashenko posing for photographs with people, with bodyguards standing nearby.

Asked about quarantine rules which the Russian leader has been keeping up since the pandemic, Putin replied: “People are more important than quarantine.” (BSS/AFP)