Lukashenko announces detention of 'people with American passports' in Belarus

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that among all those detained during the elections in the country there are people "with American passports, married to American women who work in the State Department." This was reported by press service of the president.

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The corresponding statement was made during a meeting on ensuring the security of the election campaign.

According to Lukashenko, in Belarus “a lot of people have already been detained who - and this has already been proven - set themselves the goal of destabilizing the situation in the country. And it’s not just about the detention of PMC members.”

“First names, surnames, addresses, passwords, appearances are known. Sometimes it comes to miracles. The media are alarming us that the Americans and NATO members want to capture us here. Some people were detained with American passports, married to American women working in the State Department. But Russian leaders defend them with bayonets at the ready,” said the President of Belarus.

He noted that “in these intricacies, everything is decided by money and belonging to one or another country or party does not matter.”

“It doesn’t matter whether you’re an American, a member of the State Department, or whether you belong to the Democratic Party... They took part in the election campaign in Russia and received good money for it. Today they are hyped (hyped) on the territory of Belarus. I think the Americans will begin to protect them now. “Nothing like that,” the President noted. “Money blurs the eyes, they turn green from this money: whoever pays, they sing for him.” This is the only solution. And we have a lot of such people.”

Lukashenko also said that “a hybrid war is being waged” against the country and “troubles can be expected from everywhere.”

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Earlier, on July 29, Belarus reported the detention of more than 33 foreign citizens who turned out to be militants of the Russian private military army “Wagner”. They arrived from Russia and settled in a sanatorium near Minsk. In Belarus, they believe that the goal of the militants was to “destabilize the situation during the election campaign” of the President of Belarus, recalls "Ukrainian Truth".

The names of most of the 33 militants of the PMC “Wagner” detained in Belarus are in the Ukrainian base “Peacemaker” - as participants in the war in Donbass. In Belarus, detained militants are suspected of preparing a terrorist attack.

In Russia, it is said that a group of men were on their way to Istanbul, Turkey. The Investigative Committee of Belarus called the tickets to Turkey bought by Russian mercenaries an attempt to prepare an alibi for themselves. The head of the investigation team, Alexander Agafonov, said that the Russians had air tickets to fly to Istanbul on July 25, but, as the investigation found out, they did not intend to fly there.

“It is obvious that with organized preparation for committing a crime, attackers prepare an alibi for themselves,” Agafonov emphasized.

He said that all the detainees were interrogated with the participation of lawyers. Their testimonies are inconsistent, and contradictory about the goals of their stay in Belarus. According to him, the investigation has other data confirming that the final point of the route was exactly Minsk.

The Security Service of Ukraine announced that it would initiate the extradition of the militants detained in Belarus.

According to press service of the president Belarus, in this country, the Prosecutor General's Office will deal with the detainees.

“In order to remove these idle conversations about the so-called 33 heroes, I will ask the Prosecutor General. My position is clear: we have Belarusian laws, they committed offenses on the territory of Belarus. We know everything that we have discovered today in the Investigative Committee,” the head of state noted.

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He instructed to invite the prosecutors general of Ukraine and Russia to Belarus.

“Put the three of them down (prosecutors general. - Approx. Ed.) before us are the international treaties and agreements with the Russian Federation and Ukraine, which we signed multilaterally (we took on obligations in this situation too), our laws. The Chairman of the Investigative Committee will report to you, together with the State Security Committee, both the operational information and the information of the investigators: here are the documents, the information is on the table. The three of us will decide,” said Alexander Lukashenko.

“If they don’t come, we will solve the issue without them,” the head of state emphasized.

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