The economy started to show its first signs of recovery in May. Economic activity in the first five months of 2021 increased 4.3 percent from a year earlier.

The loan programme includes a $177 million loan from the IBRD, a $34 million loan from the Clean Technology Fund and a $1 million CTF grant to make the Ukrainian system more resilient.

Lukashenko has been engaged in retrenchment since the EU imposed new sanctions aimed mainly at the ex-Soviet state's exports.

The maps show another 92,000 hidden anti-tank and anti-personnel mines in the former front-line Fizuli and Zangelan districts. Armenia occupied those districts and all or parts of seven others of Azerbaijan for 25-30 years.