“On Monday (May 23. -

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) Putin and Lukashenko are scheduled to meet in Sochi,” said the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov.

According to him, the meeting will be held in a bilateral format, which the leaders agreed on in Moscow on May 16 during the CSTO anniversary summit.

Earlier, Putin and Lukashenko had a brief conversation after the CSTO summit, and also agreed to hold a full-scale meeting in the near future.