“A striking phenomenon was the entry of our Development Bank, in fact, a financial institution of the government, into the Eurobond market ... This is to talk about trust in the national currency and absolutely empty fabrications within the framework of the integration program that we will abandon the Belarusian ruble and transfer to some other currency, ”RIA Novosti quoted him on the air of the Belarus 1 television channel.
In March, the Kremlin declared interest in settlements with Minsk in national currencies.
The Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, in turn, stated that he was not against the introduction of a single currency in the Union State, but the Russian ruble should not become it.