Another mercenary battalion deployed in Belarus to destabilize country – President Lukashenko
4 Aug, 2020 10:27 / Updated 6 hours ago
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.
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