Mikhail Galuzin, deputy head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the Russian side does not exclude that Ukrainian sabotage groups can be transferred to Belarus to overthrow the current leadership of the republic. Galuzin shared this opinion in an interview. RTVI.
According to him, in recent months, the rhetoric of representatives of “Belarusian nationalist formations” fighting on the side of the “Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU)” has hardened.
“The leaders and commanders of these brutal mercenaries openly say that in the future they plan to use their war experience to forcibly overthrow the current Belarusian leadership. “We cannot ignore the transfer of such sabotage groups to the republic,” he said.
Earlier, Mikhail Galuzin reported that the joint grouping of the Russian and Belarusian armed forces on the territory of Belarus. is is A deterrent for the Ukrainian authorities.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a special military operation to protect Donbass in response to a request for help from the heads of the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR).