Putin meets Lukashenko in Kremlin

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Russia and Belarus formally opened vast joint military drills earlier on Thursday, a week-long exercise across the territory of both countries and in the Baltic Sea that has alarmed some NATO countries.

The Kremlin has proved a vital ally for Belarus after the West imposed sanctions on Minsk over a violent crackdown that followed a contested election which gave Lukashenko his sixth term in office.