In addition, Shoigu called Minsk a reliable partner of Moscow.
“This is especially important today, in the face of unprecedented pressure from the collective West and an undeclared war against our countries,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
Earlier it became known that the Ministry of Defense of Belarus reported that a protocol of an agreement on the joint provision of regional security in the military sphere was signed with the Russian Ministry of Defense.
On the evening of December 3, the BelTA news agency reported that Shoigu had arrived in Belarus for talks with his Belarusian counterpart Viktor Khrenin.