Belarusian Head Of State Alexander Lukashenko on Monday implicated Lithuanian authorities of unloading the bodies of travelers on the boundary in between both nations.
The insurance claim was denied by Lithuania in the middle of rising boundary stress in between Belarus as well as its European Union next-door neighbors.
Lukashenko likewise cautioned that his nation will certainly stand directly behind its ally Russia if the Ukrainian authorities introduce an offensive versus Moscow-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine.
He attempted to cast the stress over travelers as component of a supposed Western story versus Belarus as well as Russia.
‘ Plague’
Lukashenko claimed at a conference with his leading army brass that Belarusian boundary guards located the bodies of 2 travelers left on the boundary over the weekend break.
” They place a cadaver, or, most likely, an individual that is still active, in a resting bag as well as throw it on the boundary,” Lukashenko said loudly. “What a plague!”
Lithuania’s State Boundary Guard Solution denied the Belarusian insurance claim, claiming that Belarusian authorities have actually continuously attempted to phase as well as straight poundings, the debilitating or perhaps fatalities of travelers, while condemning Lithuania for such “savage therapy.”
The EU has actually implicated Lukashenko of salarying a “hybrid assault” versus it, utilizing hopeless travelers as pawns as well as deceiving them right into attempting to go across right into EU participants Poland as well as Lithuania to undercut the whole bloc.
The EU states that’s Lukashenko’s vengeance for EU assents troubled Belarus after its harsh suppression on freedom militants.
Belarusian authorities have actually refuted the complaints as well as fired back at the EU, charging it of stopping working to provide secure flow to travelers.
