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A apical information charismatic in Belarus claimed Thursday that nan state has prevented attempted drone strikes from Lithuania targeting nan Belarusian superior and surrounding areas. Lithuania denied nan claim.
Ivan Tertel, caput of nan Belarusian Committee for State Security (KGB). told a convention of nan All-Belarusian People’s Assembly that his and different agencies precocious carried retired information operations "which made it imaginable to forestall attacks by combat drones from nan territory of Lithuania connected objects successful Minsk and its suburbs."
He did not coming grounds for nan declare aliases springiness immoderate details. He besides said that "radicals" successful Lithuania and Poland are producing drones to onslaught Belarus.
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The All-Belarusian People’s Assembly includes officials, members of section councils, unions and pro-government activists and operates successful parallel pinch the parliament.
Lithuanian subject spokesperson Gintautas Ciunis told journalists later Thursday that Tertel's claims were not true. "This is nonsense; I can’t find different word," Ciunis said.
SAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA - 2023/11/02: The nationalist emblem of nan Republic of Belarus arsenic a participating state astatine nan 12th St. Petersburg International Gas Forum (SPIGF 2023). (Photo by Maksim Konstantinov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
The Lithuanian situation guidance halfway said successful a connection that nan comments appeared aimed astatine a home assemblage successful Belarus. It besides opportunity they could "be regarded arsenic a continuous dispute provocation and an informational onslaught against Lithuania, which has thing to do pinch reality."
Belarus is simply a adjacent state of Russia, which has deployed tactical atomic weapons, missiles and troops successful nan country. Authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has many times boasted that Belarus would move backmost immoderate effort by Ukraine of NATO countries to onslaught it.
Although Belarusian forces person not entered nan Russia-Ukraine war, nan state has been a springboard for Russian forces that entered Ukraine’s north.
Belarusian guidance leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, exiled successful Lithuania, said Thursday that cipher speech from nan Belarus activity had heard astir a drone onslaught connected Minsk. "It is imaginable that Lukashenko started believing his ain delirium and disinformation," Tsikhanouskaya added.
The Assembly connected Thursday unanimously approved nan caller nationalist information model and a subject doctrine that were put guardant by Lukashenko to modulate nan usage of Russian atomic weapons. Those, Lukashenko told nan delegates, will let Belarus "to defy immoderate aggressor and inflict irreparable harm connected them."
Political analysts opportunity this is simply rhetoric, and does not bespeak plans by nan Belarusian leader to get progressive successful subject conflicts.
"Lukashenko is expanding nan level of bellicose rhetoric successful bid to please nan Kremlin and person further costs to conflict nan ‘common Western threat’," independent Belarusian expert Valery Karbalevich told AP.
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"Belarus has hosted Russian atomic weapons, changed its subject doctrine and now expects costs from nan Kremlin for this, and Lukashenko’s large statements should service arsenic a reminder of this," he said.
