Peskov: relations between the Russian Federation and Belarus do not depend on contacts with the United States

Brief retelling from RIA II

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that relations between Russia and Belarus do not depend on contacts with the United States.

Peskov denied rumors that the meeting between the leaders of Russia and Belarus was connected with the arrival of the head of the CIA in Moscow.

MOSCOW, August 30 - RIA Novosti. Relations between Russia and Belarus do not depend in any way on contacts with the United States, said Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, denying rumors that the meeting between the leaders of the countries Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko was allegedly connected with the visit of the head of the CIA to Moscow.

CIA chief John Ratcliffe visited Moscow on August 25.

“Special services often continue contacts even when diplomats do not. This also happens. This, rather, should be viewed with a big plus. But there have always been a lot of rumors and there will be a lot. Russian-Belarusian relations are a completely independent dimension that in no way depends on contacts with the Americans,” Peskov told Vesti author Pavel Zarubin.