“Contacts with the Belarusian side continue ... it’s a matter of simply discussing mutually acceptable and mutually beneficial modalities of such a loan, of course, taking into account the volume of previously allocated credit lines,” Peskov said.

On October 26, the Minister of Finance of Belarus Maxim Ermolovich announced that Minsk expects to receive a loan from China worth $ 500 million by the end of the year.

Ermolovich also noted that Belarus no longer asks for a state loan of about $ 600 million from Russia, there is no need for it.