“The State Security Committee, in cooperation with colleagues from other law enforcement agencies, has recently carried out a number of acute security measures, which made it possible to prevent attacks by combat drones from the territory of Lithuania on objects in Minsk and its surroundings,” the Russian news agency “RIA Novosti” quoted the Belarusian news agency as saying. the words of the head of security, Ivan Tertelis.
The report did not provide any details of the alleged attack. In turn, “RIA Novosti” and I. Tertelis did not provide any evidence to confirm these accusations, according to Reuters.
According to him, law enforcement officers continue to work in this direction, but “it is not possible to publish detailed information publicly yet.”
The head of the National Crisis Management Center, Vilmantas Vitkauskas, says that the information spread by the Belarusian services about pseudo-groups allegedly residing in Lithuania and Poland, aiming to harm Belarus, is not new – it is a provocation of the Belarusian regime. According to V. Vitkauskas, we have been hearing such narratives for a long time. They became particularly active in the Baltic countries during NATO’s defensive exercises, and A. Lukashenko spoke similarly at the beginning of March.
“Such statements by the Belarusian KGB can be evaluated as a continuous hostile provocation and an informational attack against Lithuania that has nothing to do with reality. It can be estimated that they are also intended for the domestic audience of the country, as the “nation’s meeting” is currently taking place. We would like to remind you that citizens of Lithuania traveling to Belarus are faced with increasing pressure and interrogations by the security services of this country, so there remains an urgent recommendation to refuse any trips in this direction,” he says in the comment.
The NKVC also reminds that citizens of Lithuania traveling to Belarus face increasing pressure and interrogations by the security services of this country.
“Therefore, there remains a strong recommendation to refrain from any travel in this direction,” NKVC announces.
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