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After Lukashenko announced that in the August 9 elections, he had defeated Sviatlan Cichanouskaya, a political rookie and opposition candidate, who had won 80 percent of the vote. Unprecedented protests began in the country. For a month, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets to demand his resignation.
In an interview with Russian state media broadcast on Wednesday, Lukashenko said: “I tend to hold early presidential elections. I don’t rule it out.”
“I am saying this for the first time.”
The interview was filmed on Tuesday, but was only shown the next day.
The opposition called on Mr. Lukashenko to admit defeat and resign so that new elections could be held in accordance with international standards.
The regime’s force structures responded with waves of arrests, brutal violence against protesters, and a campaign of intimidation and expulsion of opposition leaders.
Lukashenko said it was too early to talk about an exact date for the snap elections, adding that the elections should take place once the constitutional reforms he proposed have been implemented.
Cichanouskaya criticized Lukashenko’s plan to change the Constitution, saying it was just a ploy to help him stay in power.
Lukashenko, who plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in the near future, also said in an interview that any future steps towards further integration of the two countries must be based on the principle of equality.
Russia and Belarus have formed an allied state. Moscow has recently called for stronger integration, but Lukashenko has repeatedly ruled out the possibility of uniting the two countries.
“We are a sovereign and independent state,” he told Russian state media reporters.
New version of “intercepted conversation”
The allegedly intercepted “Berlin-Warsaw conversation” about the poisoning of Alexei Navaln is not attended by Germans with Poles, but by Americans. Lukashenko presented such a version to the Russian propagandists.
According to him, the entire recording of the conversation was handed over to the head of the Russian FSB Alexander Bortnikov.
“We have a copy left, we don’t have the original. A true copy of this voice. In English, everything is as it should be. Experts say that non-Germans and Poles are participating in the conversation.” Unambiguously, Americans speak because his English is very specific, “Lukashenko said.
He refused to publish the entire supposedly assumed conversation because “it is already owned by the FSB”, but at the same time he pointed out that “it was just the flowers, the berries will soon be given to us.”
Lukashenko said last week that an intercepted conversation between Warsaw and Berlin showed that the poisoning of the Russian opposition leader A. Navaln with the nerve-paralyzing substance Novičiok was a “fake.”
On Friday evening, Belarusian state television broadcast an intercepted conversation between Mike in Warsaw and Nick in Berlin about A. Navalna.
September 4 This “phone call log” was posted at night on the Telegram channel of the Belarusian social network Pul pervogo. Users of social networks call this conversation a true “masterpiece”, “circus” and other epithets.
The plot displayed by the ONT does not provide any evidence that the votes actually belong to representatives of Germany and Poland, reports the BBC’s Russian news service.
Neither their names nor their titles are indicated. In a recording of the conversation, the copy of which was published by the portal meduza.io, the Polish representative Mike calls Aliaksandr Lukashenko a “tough” and points out that his people are professional and organized, and that the army and officers are loyal to him. President of Belarus.
After the conversation was made public, a memo appeared on Twitter, in which the “hard bone” becomes a “hard potato.” Social media users note that the voices of interviewees in Russian are very similar to the voices of pirated copies of American combat movies that became popular in Russia at the end of the last century. For its part, Belarusian television reported that the recording of the conversation had been handed over to Russian special services.
“Americans are watching from space”
Lukashenko also presented an incredible version of a scandalous episode when he appeared in the heat of the protests in Minsk with a machine gun in hand.
According to him, the security guard and his spokesman feared that snipers flying over a protester in Minsk would attack him. Mr. Lukashenko said this in an interview with the Russian propaganda media.
Mr. Lukashenko was asked what the shots meant, in which he and his youngest son, Nicholas, emerged from a helicopter with weapons in hand.
“Didn’t you understand that? Everything is very simple. I know that at that time, during a known channel an hour before that program (Lukashenko and his son with automatic rifles), most heard that the sons of the president in Rostov, the president He himself escaped, the cowardly president. (If you were in my place), what would you do? I have shown that I am here, that I am not a coward, that I am not afraid, “replied the President of Belarus.
He explained that the Palace of Independence has a situation management center that monitors everything that happens in Minsk. And when the protesters first made their way to the residence of the head of state, Lukashenko said he had decided to view him from above.
“I’m sitting in a helicopter and the Americans are watching everything from space. And they immediately pointed out in their Warsaw center that the presidential helicopter had taken off. And as soon as that presidential helicopter took off, they (the protesters) spilled out and started to split up, “Lukashenko said.
After landing, it is alleged that the president was discouraged from getting off the helicopter. “My spokesperson thought I wouldn’t go because what if I was a sniper? But I had to go out and thank my people (OMON). That is a conspiracy, “Lukashenko said.
Following the appearance of weapons by Lukashenko and his son, the Coordination Council of the Belarusian opposition demanded an investigation into the delivery of a combat weapon to a minor son. This is August 24th. During a press conference, one of the opposition leaders, Maryja Kalesnikava, has been taken to the detention center.
“In our opinion, it is very strange when a person who runs the state is allowed to run around in very strange clothes and a very strange weapon in the center of Minsk. I would like to draw attention to the fact that the competent authorities must verify the fact of transferring a combat weapon to a minor and react to it, ”said the activist.
Kslesnikawa accused Lukashenko of “shooting” and noted that the person who was voted for in the elections would not do so.
Lawyer Antonas Gašinskis told the portal tut.by that it is illegal for minors to carry weapons in Belarus. People over 18 years of age need an appropriate permit, which is issued only by the Ministry of the Interior.
The lawyer pointed out that Belarusian laws establish criminal responsibility for the illegal use of weapons.
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