In September 2022, Minsk and Sevastopol signed an agreement on cooperation, although Belarus has not yet legally recognized Crimea as Russian.

Last year, in July, a similar agreement was concluded with the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee at the Forum of the Regions of Russia and Belarus, which was held in Hrodna.

The international community considers the Crimean peninsula annexed in 2014 to be part of Ukraine.

A number of sanctions were imposed on Russia for the annexation of the peninsula.

Chemical products will be brought to Belarus from Sevastopol

These are materials for hermetic insulation, which are used in electrical wiring and in the manufacture of casting molds.

Imports from the annexed Crimea were agreed upon in February this year, when Belarusian entrepreneurs working in the field of food products and industrial chemicals went to Sevastopol.

Belarusian "Coca-Cola" is sold in Simferopol and Alushta

The drink, bottled at the Coca-Cola Beverages of Belarus plant in Kolyadychi, has been sold on the peninsula since at least November 2022, investigators of the Motolko.help project found out.

Such products were noticed in small chain stores of Simferopol and Alushta.

It could be smuggled supplies through Russia.

In June 2022, the Reuters agency, citing a statement by The Coca-Cola Company, reported that production and sales of Coca-Cola will stop in Russia.

The website of the Russian representative office of the Coca-Cola Company also states that the company is suspending its activities in Russia.

Belarusians rest in a sanatorium in Yalta

Last year in October, after the explosion on the Crimean Bridge, it became known that at that time more than 200 Belarusians were resting in the Crimean sanatorium "Belarussia", and the sanatorium had 366 places in total, that is, Belarusians made up the majority of visitors.

A ticket for one person there costs 450-650.

Crimean rice was transported through Belarus to Poland

In Ukraine this year, more than 20 companies were arrested, which were in the supply chain of agricultural products from Crimea to the European Union.

They transported rice grown in Crimea through Russia and Belarus to Poland.

This is another option of how businessmen circumvented EU sanctions.

Belarus was supplied with wine, flour from grape seeds and mink fur

The authorities of the annexed Crimea in 2022 concluded contracts for the supply of products to Belarus for 2.6 million dollars, Iryna Kivika, the Deputy Prime Minister of Finance of the occupation administration of Crimea, reported last December.

We were talking about the export of wine and flour from grape seeds (worth less than 730 thousand dollars), as well as mink fur (over 1.2 million dollars).