“That’s why they (Western countries) have set a goal to first separate this area – Grodno. It has recently been hoisted Polish flags,” Lukashenko was quoted as saying by the official news agency BelTA.
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“Now the homeland is in danger. We cannot joke. Furthermore, it is not a weak force – NATO. That is why I warned the Russian President about the situation in Belarus. We have full mutual understanding, we have a proper agreement within the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Union.” pointed out the president.
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“These are not just problems for Belarus, as each other says in Russia,” Lukashenko added.
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“Belarus’s problem today is no less important for Russia than for Belarus. It attacks Russia first. But it wants to shock us. It will not happen! We will give a counterattack,” he stressed.
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“Under these circumstances, I was forced to relocate a large number of soldiers to the west, especially in the Grodno region,” Lukashenko explained.
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Five “centers of power” are working against Belarus to destabilize the situation, the president said.
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One such “government in exile” is Warsaw, according to Lukashenko. It is represented by former Belarusian presidential candidate Valery Capkalo.
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The second “center of strength” is in Lithuania, and it is represented by the presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovska, the leader said.
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Lukashenko did not comment on the other three centers.
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“I just don’t want to list them – they’re from America to Warsaw,” he said.
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According to the official results of the presidential election in Belarus on August 9, the current head of state Alexander Lukashenko won 80.1% of the vote and the opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovska – 10.1%, but the opposition believes that the election results are fake and Tikhanovska has won the election convincingly.
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Protests against electoral fraud and President Lukashenko, who have often escalated into protests by security forces, have continued in the capital, Minsk, since 9 August. During the protests, several thousand people were detained and several hundred were injured. Workers in many companies have gone on strike.
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