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| Aleynik: Lithuania finances the training of militants to overthrow the government in Belarus |
| 2024-05-06 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Lithuania not only condones, but provides support, including financial support, to paramilitary forces in the country that want to overthrow the government in Belarus. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Sergei Aleynik on May 5. “The Lithuanian authorities […] actually support and finance the training of paramilitary formations whose goal is to overthrow the legitimate government on the territory of the Republic of Belarus,” Lenta.ru quoted Aleinik as saying. According to him, Minsk received such information, including through diplomatic channels. In this regard, the head of the foreign policy department called on Vilnius to stop supporting extremists opposing the Belarusian authorities. He warned that this could have a boomerang effect. The head of the ministry noted that sooner or later any extremist or terrorist groups begin to play their game, which is often carried out, among other things, against those countries that supported and financed their activities. As Regnum reported, the country’s President Alexander Lukashenko announced the West’s preparations for an invasion of Belarus back in March last year. Then he said that certain regiments and legions were being formed for the subsequent coup in Belarus. According to the Belarusian leader, saboteurs are being sent into the country, they are trying to create cells to coordinate protests, they are being financed and armed. The deputy head of the KGB Investigative Directorate of Belarus, Konstantin Bychek, said in June 2023 that the agency has information about terrorists being trained abroad for an armed invasion of the republic. He clarified that they are being trained on the basis of special forces and armed forces in Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine. According to the intelligence officer, the State Security Committee records terrorist manifestations and, on instructions from the head of Belarus, is taking the necessary measures. In February, Lukashenko said that the Belarusian opposition wants to seize a small part of the republic’s territory and send NATO troops there. According to him, the Belarusian opposition began to discuss the possibility of seizing by force the Kobrin region of the republic and the city of Malority, located near the border with Poland. In April, Senator from the Republic of Crimea Sergei Tsekov said that the result of the provocative actions of the North Atlantic Alliance and the Belarusian opposition towards Minsk, the seizure of part of the territory and the deployment of troops into the republic will be the connection of Belarus with the Kaliningrad region. |
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