Belarusian President Oleksandr Lukashenko announced on Friday the detention of several so-called “saboteurs”, including citizens of Ukraine and Belarus, on his country’s border with Ukraine as part of an “anti-terrorist operation”, writes Reuters.
Speaking at an event in Minsk, Lukashenko said that the detainees “crossed the border with explosives to carry out sabotage mainly in Russia and Belarus.”
The Belarusian president did not say how many people were arrested in Friday’s operation, but said similar groups were detained “two or three times a week.”
Belarus is one of Russia’s closest allies. Minsk helped Moscow launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, allowing Kremlin forces to enter the country along the 1,000-kilometer Ukrainian-Belarusian border north of Kyiv.
We will remind that Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994, is not recognized as the legitimate president of Belarus by the European Union, the United States, Great Britain and other partner states due to accusations of massive falsifications in the presidential elections in August 2020. .He managed to portray himself as the savior of Russia from turmoil and civil war and even tried to start playing some role in the Russian political field.
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