Belarus, Have Gun Will Travel

Another mercenary battalion deployed in Belarus to destabilize country – President Lukashenko

4 Aug, 2020 10:27 / Updated 6 hours ago

Get short URL

FILE PHOTO. ©  BelTA via REUTERS / Nikolai Petrov

 

Another battalion of foreign contractors has been dispatched to Belarus to destabilize the country ahead of the election, President Aleksandr Lukashenko said. Last week, 33 suspected mercenaries were arrested in Minsk.

The detained men, whom the Belarusian KGB identified as members of the Wagner Group, a shady company providing mercenary services and operating out of Russia, “have told everything,” Lukashenko stated in a video address to the nation.
“They’ve decided to use the technologies of the ‘color revolution’ in Belarus, but it’s not going to work out,” he said.
The arrest of the mercenaries is “a very dangerous and strong signal,” the president said. The fact they had tickets to Istanbul on them was just a cover-up, as going to Turkey through Belarus made no sense, he insisted.
“Those people – they testified – were sent to Belarus on purpose. Their order was to wait.” According to Lukashenko, an attempt “to organize a massacre in central Minsk” was clearly their intention.
“Today we received information about another group [of mercenaries], deployed in the south” of the country, Lukashenko said. “So, we must run around the woods and catch them. We’ll capture them all.” He didn’t specify from which country the militants had arrived.

Read more

Blogger's note:  subterrnews.blogspot.com does not send cookies, or collect any information on those using the blog.  However, the blogspot is on google, and google may collect information, and send cookies.  Many of the links that  we connect to do not send out cookies or collect information, but some do.  You are keying in to this blog, and you have agreed to this.

The views expressed in the articles do not necessarily represent the opinions of this blog.  They are the views, and opinions of the author(s) of the article.