President didn't attend the Flag Day ceremony on Sunday, the primary time since he assumed the very best state workplace on this former Soviet republic 29 years in the past.
An absence that feeds rumours about his well being.
The 68-year-old head of state was represented by authorities official Roman Golovchenko at lavish celebrations in Minsk.
Based on the Dpa, state tv has additionally not broadcast pictures of the President for a number of days, however his message was learn in the course of the ceremony.
His final public look dates again to Might 9 in the course of the navy parade in Moscow on the event of the commemorations of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, the place Lukashenko left earlier than the top of the occasion.
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The Minsk presidency has not commented on the rumours about his well being.
Considered one of his staunchest opponents, former Minister of Tradition, Pavel Latushko, who lives in exile, stated in latest days that Lukashenko "is significantly unwell".
The Belarusian chief is 's closest ally.
Final month, Putin and Lukashenko mentioned increasing financial cooperation and bolstering defence ties between their nations.
The Kremlin talks concerned senior officers from each international locations and adopted Putin's one-on-one assembly with Lukashenko.
Putin stated there could be "shut work" on boosting cooperation beneath a union settlement that envisions shut political, financial and navy ties between Belarus and .
used Belarusian territory as a staging floor for invading neighbouring and has maintained a contingent of troops and weapons there.
In March, Putin declared that Moscow deliberate to place a few of its tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, an announcement that marked one other try by the Russian chief to dangle the nuclear risk to discourage the West from supporting .
Such weapons are supposed to destroy enemy troops on the battlefield and have a comparatively brief vary and a a lot decrease yield in contrast with nuclear warheads fitted to long-range strategic missiles, that are able to obliterating entire cities.