Peskov explained why Putin and Lukashenko went to the airport in the same car

Putin and Lukashenko held talks on the way to Minsk airport. Photo: Sergey Guneev/POOL/TASS

… – Dmitry Sergeevich, yesterday the Kremlin pool witnessed the snowy summit in Minsk. It was very interesting… By the way, I would also like to thank the press service of the Russian President. His employee Andrei Popov is just a great guy, we got stuck in the snow, we broke down… And still we managed to get to the top. But it’s not that. I just wanted to ask why Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko went to the airport in our president’s car. Because Putin has greater capacity to cross the country?

With these questions, the Komsomolskaya Pravda journalist began his conversation with the official representative of the Kremlin on Friday, November 24.

“To be honest, I was afraid,” Peskov shared, “that they would ask me why it snowed yesterday in Minsk.” He wouldn’t know how to answer.

This means that they (Putin and Lukashenko – AG) really agreed to talk, since Minsk airport is quite far from the city center, from the presidential palace.

They decided to use this avenue to actually have a two-way conversation.

– Why was it snowing, Dmitry Sergeevich? – I asked anyway.

“I don’t know, it’s not a question for me,” the press secretary noted and continued. – And in fact, on the way to the airport there was a full-fledged two-way conversation.

– From the mouth of the Russian President came, we heard it for the first time, the phrase that a joint CSTO operation “Mercenary” was being carried out to suppress the recruitment and departure of citizens of our countries to participate in terrorist groups. Is there any detail on what this gives, what results were achieved during this unique operation?

The official representative of the Kremlin answered my question as follows:

– In the CSTO member states there are recruiters who try to recruit citizens of our countries to participate in illegal terrorist groups and formations in other regions, in other countries of the world.

They manage to seduce some citizens down this criminal path.

The CSTO member countries are fighting together for this.

This is not the first day they have fought and the political will to continue this work has been emphasized.

– That is, there are results. Thank you so much. By the way, there is also snow in Moscow these days.

– Yeah…