26 Sep 2013 20:09

Peskov can't say if Putin and Lukashenko discussed Uralkali on fight to Kaliningrad

KHMELYOVKA TESTING GROUND, Kaliningrad region. Sept 26 (Interfax) - Russian presidential press officer Dmitry Peskov said he cannot say if Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko discussed the Uralkali issue on their flight from Grodno to Kaliningrad.

According to earlier reports, Putin and Lukashenko on arrived in the testing ground Khmelyovka in the Kaliningrad region, where the Russian-Belarusian military training West 2013 is being conducted, on Thursday.

The presidents, who arrived at the testing ground together, watched the maneuvers from a control point on the coast of the Baltic Sea.

On Thursday afternoon, Putin and Lukashenko visited the Gozhsky testing ground in Belarus, where they also watched maneuvers. After that, they took the Russian president's plane to Kaliningrad.