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President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko instructed the security forces to step up work to protect the state border and prevent the facts of its violation. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said this today at a meeting on the situation at the border, BelTA has learned.

“From today, not a single foot on the territory of Belarus from the adjacent side, whether from the south or from the west, should step. How will you do this – after this meeting, we will discuss, – you will meet with the Secretary of State. Here is the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Minister of Defense Close every meter of the border. It was not for nothing that we invested colossal funds in the border troops, in our general power structures. Our people should feel calm, they should know that there are men who are ready to protect them, “the Belarusian leader said. we must do it. Elementary. God forbid, they (neighboring countries. – approx. BelTA) will begin to implement the tactics of expelling people whom they invited there (talking about illegal migrants. – approx. BelTA) through official checkpoints. This is already … You know the consequences, so are they. So let them think. We warned them, and let them think. ”

“The ball is on their side. But to reach the point of killing people and throwing the half-dead into our territory … Well, the Nazis and everything that can be said about them,” the head of state added.

According to him, the latest events on the western borders of Belarus, primarily with Lithuania and even Poland, are at least alarming.

“I think that if we compare all the factors and facts that we have observed recently, having gone through seven or eight stages of the so-called color revolution, they have nothing left in their plan. Therefore, we returned to the long-tested tactics – blackmail, pressure. to forceful threats, “the head of state said.

Alexander Lukashenko gave an example. One of the threats is that allegedly illegal migrants will be concentrated at official checkpoints: “Between, say, Lithuania and Belarus. This is already several hundred and maybe a thousand people.

In this regard, the President noted that such actions of the neighboring side, if this happens, would threaten with a conflict, because the border guards, according to the law, must protect the border and prevent its violation.

“Therefore, a very dangerous, frankly speaking, situation is developing. But to say that we did not foresee this and did not anticipate it would be wrong. Therefore, at one time, and I first of all, guided you to be very attentive in this regard. to our “friends-comrades” – neighbors, especially in the West, “said Alexander Lukashenko.