Watch: Russia's Putin plays ice hockey with Belarus president Lukashenko

Russia's president Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko played for the same team. Putin scored seven goals and Lukashenko two goals.

The two presidents played the friendly match after bilateral talks broadcast on state television.

The planned exercises, on Belarusian territory, come amid unprecedented East-West tensions, with Russia demanding that NATO promise not to admit Ukraine, which borders both Russia and Belarus. Ukraine says Russia may be preparing an invasion, something Moscow had denied.