Belarusian dictator Oleksandr Lukashenko on Thursday unveiled the “first” computer produced in his country, announcing that it is manufactured at a TV factory and that only 12% of the components are domestic.

“I made a special request that this product be brought to our meeting today. This is the first computer. Number one! – which our smart people gave me,” he emphasizes.

“They were tasked with going around the world and finding the best of what we can’t make – processors, software, etc. Better! And create that computer,” Lukashenko claims.

Then he admits that only about 12% of computer components are domestically produced, but promises that this percentage will increase to 30% by the end of the year.

“But what is important is the simple fact that [el există]. You can come and feel it later,” assures Oleksandr Lukashenko.

“If you hadn’t been told that it was created at our Horizon television factory, you wouldn’t have touched it and said it was Belarusian. This indicates that we have a huge potential,” he concludes.

In July, Belarus declared default

As with Russia, the European Union imposed sanctions against the Belarusian economy due to Lukashenko’s support for the “special military operation” launched by Vladimir Putin on February 24.

In mid-July, the rating agency Moody’s estimated that Belarus entered a state of insolvency.

The announcement by financial analysts came after the Minsk Treasury overdue the payment of Belarus-27 Eurobonds by $22.9 million.

The Ministry of Finance in Minsk made a payment in the national currency of the Belarusian ruble, due to which bondholders could not receive payments.

On June 27, Moody’s announced that Russia had defaulted for the first time in over a hundred years. The last time this happened was after the Bolshevik revolution, when the country’s new leadership refused to pay off old debts accumulated under the tsarist regime.

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