The longtime leaders met for the first time since Lukashenko helped end a mutiny by Russian Wagner mercenaries in Russia last month, in the biggest threat to Putin's more than two-decade rule
The death of Soslan Valiyev, 38, last week has raised fears that former murderers returning from fighting in Ukraine with Wagner could be about to go on a bloody spree in Russia s towns and cities.
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Russia has hit out at European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen after her public remarks appeared to throw doubt over the safety and efficacy of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine. Mrs von der Leyen s comments were dismissed by Russian diplomats in Brussels as either an effort to politicise the issue in an unsubstantiated and, indeed, deplorable way, or indicates an inadequate level of awareness of the top-level official . It comes as a number of European Union nations are