In a message to the people and the National Assembly, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko raised the issue of the detention of 33 Russian citizens and announced the transfer of another group of militants to the South of the country. "Today we received information about another detachment that was transferred to the South. We must run and catch them in the woods when the cleaning is going on! We will catch them all, " BelTA quotes him as saying. Lukashenko did not provide details.
Prefacing the story about Russian mercenaries, the President said about an attempt to organize a massacre in the center of Minsk. "Yes, while there is no hot war, they don't shoot, they haven't pulled the trigger yet. But the attempt to organize a massacre in the center of Minsk is already obvious. Billions of dollars of resources have been thrown against Belarus and the latest technologies have been mobilized, "RIA Novosti quotes Lukashenko as saying. He did not accuse anyone in particular of trying to organize this massacre, but after that he went on to discuss the detained "wagnerians".
According to him, the mercenaries came to Belarus intentionally and observed what was happening in Minsk during the presidential election campaign. They were not going to leave for third countries. "And all this about Istanbul, Venezuela, Africa and Libya is a lie. These people (they gave evidence) were sent specifically to Belarus, " Lukashenko said.
According to him, the detainees were ordered to wait. "There were tickets purchased for Istanbul - this is a legend, because when they went across the Russian border, they had to show both there and here that they were flying to Istanbul," the President explained. He expressed bewilderment why it was necessary to fly through Minsk, if you can get to Istanbul "from Novorossiysk, from the Crimea in the end."
According to the Russian side, the detainees are PSC employees who flew to Latin America via Minsk and Istanbul. "You've already disgraced yourself. First Istanbul, then Venezuela, yesterday they called-no, not Venezuela, "Kommersant quotes the head of state.
"We have a human attitude towards these guys, and this has had a certain effect: they told us everything. Therefore, stop lying and mixing up all sorts of confusion in the media, " Lukashenko urged. - We are native people-Belarusians, Ukrainians, Russians, poles, Jews. We have always lived here in peace, and do not plant weapons here, do not blow up the situation, because it will blaze so that it will be difficult to get to Vladivostok."
Writer Zakhar Prilepin, who after detaining a group of Russians in Belarus said that he served with several of them in the same battalion in the Donbass, told RBC that he knows people whom the Belarusian authorities call the Wagner PMCs, and some of them have already left the country.
"They went in several groups, now Lukashenko says that all this is not true and the tickets are fictitious, but these people went in several groups to a third country. And one group has already left, and this one was the next or one of the three and was intercepted, " Prilepin said. He noted that he does not know exactly how many people arrived in Belarus, but some of them definitely went to a third country.
"I don't know if they are 170 or 35 or 46. the only thing Is that these people are not chevekashniki, chopovtsy, call them whatever you want, I know them and I know where they went," the writer said, stressing that "these groups had nothing to do with Belarus or their activities there." The detained Russians, according to him, were part of the group that was supposed to fly last. The rest have reached their destination, "where tasks are performed." Prilepin did not disclose the specific location.
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