Authorities are investigating whether violations of aviation safety or operational rules contributed to the crash.
Mr Simonenko faces up to 10 years in a penal colony.
Mr Naryshkin said Ukraine must renounce its ambitions to join NATO and give up territories annexed by Moscow if the Ukraine war was to end.
The CHPP had 21 people working at the time of the explosion.
“We could waste (Mr Prigozhin), no problem. If not on the first try, then on the second. I told him: don’t do this,” Mr Lukashenko said.
He claimed that some veterans of elite Russian military units and foreign actors could have been involved in it.
Russia claims that there are growing interest to join BRICS in the Arab world and the Asia-Pacific region.
Last December, Moldova’s secret service accused Russia of planning to invade the tiny country wedged between Ukraine and Romania, possibly sometime between January and April.
A Russian warship armed with new-generation hypersonic cruise weapons will participate in joint exercises with the navies of China and South Africa in February.
Ukraine said it acted in self-defence, as one of the Russian soldiers opened fire instead of surrendering with his comrades.
