Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks as he chairs a meeting on drafting constitutional changes at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. Putin proposed a set of constitutional amendments that could keep him in power well past the end of his term in 2024.(Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
On Saturday, President Vladimir Putin said that unannounced NATO operations in the Black Sea constituted a severe threat for Moscow and that Russia had nothing to do with the problem on Belarus’s border with the European Union.
Putin stated on the Kremlin website that he hoped Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel would communicate directly about the problem and that the migrants mostly desired to go to Germany.
