A delegation of Belarusian war veterans will visit Murmansk from June 3 to 5

May 30, Minsk /Elena Prus - BELTA/. A delegation of Great Patriotic War veterans from Belarus will visit Murmansk (Russian Federation) from June 3 to 5 this year. Ivan Nagibin, head of the department for veterans and elderly people of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection's department for state social support of the population, informed a BELTA correspondent about this. The delegation mainly consists of Great Patriotic War veterans from the Vitebsk region, led by the chairman of the regional council of veterans, retired General Gennady Gerasimovich. The program for the visit of Belarusian veterans to Murmansk is very intensive. Meetings with the veteran community of the Murmansk region, veterans of the Northern Fleet, and visits to the defense sites of the Arctic region and memorial complexes are planned. Veterans from Vitebsk region will meet with the crew of the cruiser "Dmitry Ustinov". This is the fourth trip of Belarusian veterans to the Russian Federation this year (in April, a veteran delegation visited Bryansk, and in May - Volgograd and Tula). The next trip is planned for mid-June to the Moscow region. Visits of Belarusian veteran delegations are organized in accordance with intergovernmental agreements. Funds from the state budget are allocated for these purposes. -0-