Lukashenka thanked Putin for weapons and troops in western Belarus

At a meeting with Vladimir Putin on 10 November, Alexander Lukashenka thanked him for deliveries of weapons to Belarus and for the Russian troops on the western front. The meeting took place at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, on the eve of the CSTO Collective Security Council session.

According to business-gazeta.ru, Putin met his Belarusian counterpart for the sixth time in 2026.

Lukashenka said: "As for security, I thank you for keeping your word. Everything you promised Belarus in terms of security, we have mastered." He added that the Belarusian army is receiving the newest types of weapons, and that units have been formed "from the people's militia to the armed forces."

He spoke the same words of thanks for keeping his word on security at his meeting with Putin in November 2024.

According to Lukashenka, under the CSTO agreements the Belarusian army and Russian units operate on the western front. He said they are "very combat-capable and ready to defend Belarus."

Lukashenka thanked Putin for keeping these troops on combat readiness: "for all the difficulty" of the issues, they were never sent to the combat zone in Ukraine. "That is very important to us," he said.

Lukashenka also noted that these units were not sent to the war so as not to leave the country without protection.

Lukashenka said that trade turnover in 2026 grew by about 20%, "somewhere around 21 and a bit."

Putin, for his part, thanked Lukashenka for his help in organizing humanitarian exchanges in connection with the war in Ukraine.