MINSK, August 23. /TASS/. Belarus and North Korea will soon sign a vise-free travel agreement, Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov said.

"The agreement is ready, with only several technical aspects remaining. We will sign it in the near future," he told the Belarus-1 television channel.

He also said that he had spent his vacation in North Korea. "Even on vacation <…> I had a meeting with the North Korean foreign minister [Choe Son Hui]. We discussed with her the entire range of bilateral relations and agreed on further contacts between the foreign ministries and on the signing of a number of agreements, including this important agreement on visa-free travels," he explained.

Ryzhenkov said in late March that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko had set a task of opening Belarus’ embassy in North Korea and expedite work on a fise-free travel agreement.

At least 250 drones destroyed over Russian territory since morning

Theu were intercepted over the regions of Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kirov, Kursk, Krasnodar, Oryol, Ryazan, Samara, Saratov, Tver, Tula, Ulyanovsk, the Moscow Region, the Republic of Crimea and the waters of the Black and Azov seas

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Nearly 270 Ukrainian drones taken down over Russian regions during day

Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles over Crimea, the Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Oryol, Rostov, Smolensk, Tula, Moscow, and Krasnodar Regions, and the Black Sea, he Russian defense ministry said

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