'We are forced to do this': Lukashenko closed the border of Belarus with the West - ForumDaily
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'We have to do it': Lukashenka closed the border of Belarus with the West

The Belarusian authorities are closing the borders with Poland and Lithuania and strengthening the borders with Ukraine, said the current president of the country, Alexander Lukashenko. Polish border guards say that the border is working as usual, writes Air force.

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“We are forced to withdraw troops from the streets, as I already said, put half the army under arms and close the state border with the West. First of all, with Lithuania and Poland,” Lukashenko said at the women’s forum “For Belarus.”

“We are forced to strengthen the state border, unfortunately, with our fraternal Ukraine,” he added.

Meanwhile, Polish border guards told RIA Novosti that the border with Belarus is operating normally.

“On our part, the passage of citizens and transport is currently carried out as usual. We don’t know what’s there on the Belarusian side,” a representative of the Nadbuzhansky department of the Polish Border Guard told the agency.

“In recent days, I have been forced, together with the President of Russia and the Minister of Defense, to rebuild the common defense of the union state,” Lukashenko said.

The leader of the Belarusian opposition, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, is currently in Lithuania. She left Belarus after a conversation with law enforcement officers, and later published a video message in which she said that she was forced to make a difficult choice. She concluded her address with the words “children are the most important thing in our lives.”

Two representatives of the Coordination Council of the Opposition of Belarus, Ivan Kravtsov and Anton Rodnenkov, were forced to leave for Ukraine. The opposition and Ukraine called what happened to them forced deportation. They also tried to expel the leader of the Belarusian opposition, Maria Kolesnikova, from the country, but this failed because, according to sources, she tore her passport at the border.

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Earlier, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said in an interview that he did not consider Alexander Lukashenko the legitimate president of Belarus, because the elections were not free and democratic.

“We cannot call Lukashenko a legitimate president because there were no democratic elections in Belarus,” Nausėda told Sky News shortly after protests began in Belarus.

Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia previously imposed personal sanctions and barred entry to President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and 29 other Belarusian officials due to rigged elections and violent suppression of protests.

A $1,5 billion loan and the threat to “scratch your hands”: how Lukashenko met with Putin

On September 14, a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the current President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko took place in Sochi. The negotiations took place in a one-on-one format. Protests against the falsification of the presidential election results have been ongoing in Belarus for more than a month, and this personal meeting between Putin and Lukashenko was the first since the demonstrations began, writes Air force.

The negotiations lasted more than four hours.

Before their start, both leaders of states made several statements. Putin said that Russia will provide Belarus with a loan of $ 1,5 billion. He praised Lukashenka's promises to carry out constitutional reform.

“We know about your proposal to begin work on the constitution. I believe that this is logical, timely, and expedient,” said the Russian President.

Putin added that the citizens of Belarus should understand the situation in the country on their own.

“You know our position well: we are in favor of Belarusians themselves, without any prompting or external pressure, in a calm manner and in dialogue with each other, sorting out this situation and coming to a common decision on how to organize their work,” Putin emphasized.

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He also promised to continue cooperation between the two countries in the military sphere.

Lukashenko thanked Putin “and all Russians” for their support after the presidential elections. He promised the Russian president to inform him in detail about what was happening in Belarus.

In addition, he again hinted at the involvement of some external forces in the protests in Belarus.

“Well, they demonstrated their determination that if there, outside the Belarusian borders, someone wants to scratch their hands, then we can scratch them at any moment. And what I am very pleased with, I am very grateful to you for this, you have demonstrated that the Belarusian borders are the borders of a union state,” Lukashenko summed up.

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