Lukashenko saw the preparations for Maidan and hints at Russian involvement
Color revolution technologies were used yesterday in Minsk during a protest against the arrest of ex-banker and presidential candidate Viktor Babariko.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko announced this today at a meeting with the country’s bankers, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“For example, the “carousels” that were created during the collection of signatures, when a crowd walked in line, stretching for a kilometer. And the same ones signed for all candidates except Lukashenko.
Yesterday evening we saw this carousel of cars when we were driving around one block (we tracked it, we saw these cars, all these license plates driving in a circle) and honked, including in front of the State Security Committee. We see all this and understand what is happening,” Lukashenko said.
He accused the media covering the event of being unconstructive and declared a threat to national security.
“What’s at stake is not even a stable, clean and cozy Belarus, but the independence of the country. They just want to break the country. Don’t put me before a choice... Observing the situation over the past XNUMX hours, I see that certain forces have become active and are beginning to intensify, rocking the situation in the country. We have observed this for a long time... I will go to preserve this country, no matter what it costs me,” Lukashenko said.
According to him, the authorities managed to take proactive steps and “thwart a large-scale plan to destabilize Belarus” and the Maidan.
“That was the goal. The masks were torn off not only from certain dolls that we had here, but also from puppeteers who sit outside Belarus,” Lukashenko said, repeating almost verbatim yesterday’s thesis of the head of the State Control Committee of Belarus, Ivan Tertel, who accused Gazprom of economic crimes and "higher".
“Higher” responded. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov emphasized that the interests of the country’s largest companies “are always under the protection of the Russian state”
“Such accusations against international companies cannot be unfounded and must be supported by arguments,” Peskov said.
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