# Kremlin: Putin’s meetings with Lukashenko unrelated to CIS chief’s visit

https://mins.news/en/item/37572

- TASS, 2026-08-30 13:12 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://tass.com/politics/2179499

> Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said Russian-Belarusian relations exist in a completely separate dimension and are not affected by contacts with the United States. He was commenting on CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s successive visits to Russia.

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