MOSCOW, August 2 Russia is grateful to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko for his assistance in compiling such an urgent prisoner exchange chain, said Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov.
«We must give the highest assessment to the interaction that was carried out with the KGB, with the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, and to the assistance that President Lukashenko personally provided in compiling such an urgent chain, and express gratitude for this,» Peskov told reporters.