Putin explained why he takes pictures with people, despite the quarantine

Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in St. Petersburg visited the Kronstadt Cathedral. Coming out of it, he approached the people in the square. To the question of Kommersant’s special correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov, “what about quarantine,” the Russian president replied: “People are more important.”

Today, July 23, the presidents of Russia and Belarus met in St. Petersburg. During the talks that took place in the Konstantinovsky Palace, Vladimir Putin, in particular, declared about the failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive. Alexander Lukashenko, in turn, informed to the Russian president that the fighters of the PMC “Wagner” who are in Belarus want “to the West.” At the same time, according to him, he does not want to let them go there because of “bad moods.”