Vladimir Putin

once again welcomes

to Sochi.

This is not the first time they meet in this city.

This year, Putin held six meetings with Lukashenko.

"We saw that we can live normally.

There is no fear.

Well, if Europe has gone mad, let it think," Lukashenka is quoted by his press service "Pul Pervogo".

At the meeting, Lukashenko in one statement mentioned the emigrants from Belarus who are allegedly "asking to go back" and the topic of escaping from mobilization in Russia.

"There are different people.

There is a kind of watershed and criterion, we have in 2020, in Russia now, which shows who is who.

There is nothing wrong with that.

We are being intimidated by mobilization, here someone ran abroad.

Listen, Russia has a mobilization resource of 25 million.

Okay, let 30,000, well, 50,000 escape.

And if they had stayed here, would they have been our people?

Let them run.

I don't know how you feel about it, but I wasn't particularly worried when several thousand left in 2020."

Russian President

announced the mobilization on September 21, calling it "partial".

The authorities announced their intention to recruit 300,000 reservists who served in the army.

However, as Russian media reported later, the authorities plan to mobilize more than a million citizens for the war with Ukraine.

Since the announcement of mobilization, anti-war protests have been taking place in Russia almost every day, and the number of detainees is already in the thousands.

People also set fire to military commissars, in the city of Ust-Ilimsk they injured a military commissar.

In Dagestan, people clashed with the police.