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Attempts to topple, kill Belarusian Prez foiled: Russia FSB
Sun, Apr 18 2021 10:23:41 AM
Moscow, Apr 18 (IANS): Russia s top intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said that it has detained two members of the Belarusian opposition who plotted a military coup and an assassination attack on President Alexander Lukashenko.
In a statement on Saturday, the agency said: In a special operation conducted by the FSB alongside the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus (KGB), the illegal activities of Yuri Leonidovich Zyankovich, a dual citizen of the US and the Belarus, and Belarusian citizen Alexander Feduta were prevented, as those had been scheming to stage a military coup in Belarus in accordance with the tried and tested color revolution scenario with the involvement of local and Ukrainian nationalists, as well as the physical removal of President Alexander Lukashenko, TASS News Agency reported.
In a special operation conducted by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation alongside the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus (KGB), the illegal activities of Yuri Leonidovich Zyankovich, a dual citizen of the United States and the Republic of Belarus, and Belarusian citizen Alexander Feduta were prevented, as those had been scheming to stage a military coup in Belarus in accordance with the tried and tested ‘color revolution’ scenario with the involvement of local and Ukrainian nationalists, as well as the physical removal of President Alexander Lukashenko, the FSB said.
The FSB said, according to proactive information received from the Belarusian partners, in private chats of an internet messenger the ideologists of radical opposition Zyankovich and Feduta organized discussion of a plan of armed uprising in Belarus and decided to hold an in-person meeting in Moscow, using available measures of secrecy, with the opposition-minded generals o
April 17, 2021
The International Democrat Union (IDU) strongly condemns the detention of Ryhor Kastusiou, Chairman of our member party the Belarusian Popular Front (BPF). This is another strike against the political opposition in Belarus, by Mr. Lukashenko’s regime, to silence the voice of freedom and democracy.
The State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus (KGB) has confirmed the detention of chairman Ryhor Kastusiou and political analyst Alyaksandr Fyaduta amid an ongoing crackdown on dissent following the fraudulent presidential election last year. The KGB admitted that the two men were being held on unspecified charges, adding that detailed information on the cases will be provided later.