{"id":161264,"date":"2025-10-23T17:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/161264\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"kgb-official-claims-belarus-opposition-organizing-liberation-army","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/161264\/","title":{"rendered":"KGB official claims Belarus\u2019 opposition organizing \u201cliberation army\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>October 23, <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> The opponents of the Belarusian government are organizing a \u201cliberation army\u201d in the European Union, claimed Siarhiej Cieraba\u016d, deputy chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), as quoted by Russia\u2019s <em>TASS<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cieraba\u016d spoke at the Commonwealth of Independent States conference against terrorism and extremism in Tajikistan today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The army is designed to comprise three brigades with a total strength of 9,000 to 15,000 soldiers and meet NATO standards, he claimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the 2020 political unrest in Belarus and especially after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the KGB chief and other officials have regularly made false claims accusing the opposition of harboring plans to send militant groups to Belarus, seize territories and \u201cmarch on Minsk.\u201d However, the intelligence agency has never released any evidence to substantiate those claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cieraba\u016d went on to say that NATO and Ukraine are already training members of the \u201cliberation army\u201d under the disguise of sporting events. \u201cThe goal is to invade the Republic of Belarus,\u201d he alleged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instructors teach militants to how to operate drones, close-quarters combat, terrorism and sabotage, he claimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He accused Ukraine, Poland, Czechia and the Baltic states of hosting the training events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s Security Service and Armed Forces oversee these groups, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 23, Pozirk. The opponents of the Belarusian government are organizing a \u201cliberation army\u201d in the European Union, claimed Siarhiej Cieraba\u016d, deputy chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), as quoted by Russia\u2019s TASS. Cieraba\u016d spoke at the Commonwealth of Independent States conference against terrorism and extremism in Tajikistan today. The army is designed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":63135,"template":"","rubric":[16,30],"class_list":["post-161264","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>KGB official claims Belarus\u2019 opposition organizing \u201cliberation army\u201d | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"October 23, Pozirk. 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