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Lukashenko comments on aggressive intelligence activities in Belarus

MINSK, 14 December (BelTA) – Foreign intelligence services have recently stepped up their activities in Belarus, President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he met with heads of the delegations participating in the 19th session of the Meeting of Heads of Security Bodies and Intelligence Services of the CIS member states on 14 December, BelTA has learned. 

“We see the extent of the activities of foreign intelligence services in our country. The forms of their work are becoming more and more aggressive. They have started to deploy not just spies but terrorist operatives here,” the head of state said. “They are trying to create extremist cells, form some regiments of our fugitives, attract mercenaries.”

Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed that he was not exaggerating, but on the contrary, could not reveal everything about the matter: “You understand me. We, together with the Russian Federation, have already detained a dozen or two groups of terrorists, primarily seeking to carry out terrorist operations in Russia and Belarus.”

Evidence of this are the recent activities in Machulishchi (when they tried to attack a military airfield and destroy Russian equipment), Grodno, attempts to undermine the railroad in different regions of the country. “I do not need to explain to you what this is done for,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.

“We see the extent of these activities in Belarus. It is clear that this ‘sanitary cordon’ - a so-called thousand-kilometer window. Some call it a balcony or a window. It is clear that they will constantly aim to cut it off in order to reach Moscow through Smolensk, as always. Frankly speaking, we cannot allow this and will stick to this line together with our allies in every possible way,” the Belarusian leader said.

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