“Our law enforcement agencies have already entered into a dialogue with their Belarusian colleagues. We made a request to extradite them to Ukraine, ”Kuleba said, noting that a response had not yet been received.
Earlier, the presidents of Ukraine and Belarus, Vladimir Zelensky and Alexander Lukashenko, discussed the issue of extradition of Russian citizens detained in the republic.
Lukashenko instructed to invite the prosecutors general of Russia and Ukraine to Belarus to investigate the situation with the detained Russians.
On July 29, the state Belarusian news agency BelTA announced the arrest of 33 Russians in Belarus. On July 30 it became known that the detainees were suspected of preparing riots.
The press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin expects that the Russians detained in Belarus will be released in the near future.