Belarusian President won't go to the Moscow Victory Day parade

Aleksander Lukashenko, the Belarusian President, will not go to the Moscow Victory Day parade.

"I am busy at home," Aleksander Lukashenko said, adding that he must stay in Belarus as commander-in-chief.

"The Minsk parade is also a very important event, that is why I must stay in Belarus as commander-in-chief." Therefore, Aleksander Lukashenko will take part in the Moscow holiday events on the 7th and 8th of May and then will return to Minsk. The Belarusian President also added: "I do not support those politicians who refused to go to the celebration in Moscow. As for me, I have other circumstances."

The President of Belarus in previous years has attended the 9 May parade in Minsk. On May 9, 2014, he and his son personally joined the parade of veterans. Against the background of the failure of most European leaders to visit celebrations in Moscow in early March, presidential aide Yuri Ushakov told RIA Novosti that Lukashenko will be at the parade in the Russian capital.