KGB chief says Lithuania attacked Minsk with drones, Vilnius dismisses claim as nonsense

April 25, Pozirk. The Committee for State Security (KGB) has prevented drone attacks from Lithuania targeting facilities in Minsk and its surroundings, its chief Ivan Tertel has told delegates at the All-Belarusian People’s Assembly without presenting any evidence.
Gintautas Ciunis, a spokesman for the Lithuanian defense ministry, dismissed the claim as nonsense, LRT reported.
Tertel also claimed that a Lithuanian paramilitary riflemen club was plotting terrorist attacks in the Ašmiany, Smarhoń and Brasłaŭ districts bordering Lithuania. The group allegedly smuggled in weapons and explosives.
The KGB uncovered more than 40 routes used to transfer weapons and explosives from Ukraine to Belarus, he went on to say.
Tertel accused exiled Belarusian opposition activists of destabilizing Belarus, noting that Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland were used for preparing attacks and sabotage acts against Belarus. Plans to seize Belarusian cities exist as well, he claimed.
Following the 2020 political crisis in Belarus and the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine in 2022, the KGB has been regularly reporting on intentions of sabotage groups to attack Belarus, seize its towns and Minsk without presenting any evidence.
The KGB has used state-run television stations to make and broadcast propaganda films about alleged attackers trying to “destabilize” Belarus with explosives.
Journalists have not been able to find any evidence to prove the agency’s claims.

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