MINSK, October 20. /TASS/. The West may use regular military units disguised as nationalist battalions for attacks against Belarus, the Security Council’s secretary, Alexander Volfovich, said on Thursday.
In an interview with the media resource SB. Belarus Segodnya he noted that "forces ready to unleash a bloody massacre on Belarusian soil continue to be forged in the furnace of the Ukrainian military conflict," where "nationalist paramilitary groups as Kalinovsky's battalion, Pogonya regiment, and the extremist association White Legion acquire combat experience.
"The nationalist quasi-military formations themselves do not pose a significant threat from the military point of view. But regular military units from Western armies can be used under their flag. From the standpoint of international law, it will be very difficult to prove their participation in aggression. In this case they will argue that ‘Belarusians are fighting against Belarusians’," Volfovich said.
He stressed that "the forms and methods of using this kind of nationalist military groups are also known well enough" and, according to the experience of recent military conflicts, "they will clearly be terrorist."
Earlier, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko had repeatedly stated that Belarusian radicals were being trained in Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine for sabotage, terrorist attacks and an armed rebellion. In early October, the chief of the state security committee, Ivan Tertel, said the opponents of the Belarusian authorities were plotting a penetration by a large armed group from Ukraine.