Lukashenko convenes security forces after explosions in Machulishchy airbase to order to defend borders
Alexander Lukashenko, the self-proclaimed President of Belarus, has held a meeting with security forces following two recent explosions at a military airfield located in the village of Machulishchy.
Source: Belarus-aligned news outlet BelTa; Belaruski Hajun [an independent Belarusian military monitoring media outlet]
Quote from Lukashenko: "We have a large number of people in uniform. They are all armed. These are people who are dedicated to defending their homeland. We need to take advantage of this. Discipline and fulfilment of their duties. Especially at the border."
Details: As he states, the militsiya [police forces in the Soviet Union and in several Eastern Bloc countries], the KGB [State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus], and the military "must see any slightest aggression against our country on the borders of our state in order to take appropriate measures to respond."
Lukashenko believes that the country's enemies are using every opportunity to "stir up" the situation in Belarus. "I ask you and demand that you fulfil these instructions. Everything else is up to me," he said.
The meeting was attended by the Secretary of State of the Belarusian Security Council, the Ministers of Internal Affairs and Defence, and the heads of the KGB and the State Border Committee. Lukashenko himself seemed anxious.
Background: On the morning of 26 February, the BYPOL initiative reported explosions at the Machulishchy airbase in Minsk Oblast in Belarus. There is information about a damaged Russian AWACS aircraft.
Alexander Azarov, Head of the BYPOL initiative, said that Belarusian partisans were behind it. As he stated, the participants of the alleged sabotage in Machulishchy left Belarus and are now safe.
A day after an incident at the military airbase in the village of Machulishchy in Belarus, the Belarusian border guards significantly enhanced control of people leaving the country.
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