MOSCOW, April 6. /TASS/. Belarus is seeing an influx of weapons from Ukraine, the country’s president Alexander Lukashenko said.
"We have seen a steady stream of weapons from Ukraine to Russia, and from Russia to us. Our border with Ukraine is permanently closed. Weapons have flowed through the Bryansk and other regions," Lukashenko said on Thursday at a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State.
He also reported that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Belarusian State Security Committee (KGB) had completed an operation to detain a terrorist on Thursday. According to the Belarusian KGB, Russian citizen Alexey Kulikov was detained on April 4 in Minsk. The suspect was plotting terrorist attacks on targets in Grodno under the guidance of an employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. One of these targets was supposed to be the building of the Russian Consulate General.
"We have finished, Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin], with [the chairman of the Russian Federal Security Service] Alexander Bortnikov the operation today. We will inform the public in the near future. We detained this terrorist who entered the territory of Belarus through Russia; they wanted to take him to another country. We ran a joint operation with the FSB and the KGB, and shut down the entire network. Now the Russians are working on other areas here in Russia," Lukashenko said.
"So they won't leave us alone," the Belarusian leader pointed out, "But I must say that there are weapons and explosives caches both in Belarus and in Russia. <...> That is what happened in St. Petersburg. In most cases, an ordinary person does not carry explosives in his pockets across the border. There are already spies here. And we've already caught several of them," he said.
Lukashenko also informed that on Wednesday they had a very serious discussion with Russian President Vladimir Putin about security in this regard. "I think we can handle it," the Belarusian president concluded.