BREST, November 22. /TASS/. Attempts to remove Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko have escalated to include blatant terrorist tactics, the country’s top diplomat Maxim Ryzhenkov told reporters following a joint meeting of the Belarusian and Russian foreign ministries.

"Such subversive actions against Belarus have been ongoing for over four years, beginning before the 2020 [presidential] election. We know that almost immediately after the establishment of the Belarusian state, which firmly defines its policies independently, numerous efforts were made to overthrow the country’s leadership, dethrone the president, in one way or another. What differentiates recent years is that these activities have intensified to involve blatant terrorist tactics," Ryzhenkov said, commenting on a Belarusian investigative documentary titled Demons, which focuses on a plan prepared by the opposition and Western powers to carry out a military invasion of the country.

According to the Belarusian foreign minister, foreign countries initially focused on training so-called human rights activists to conduct acts of civil disobedience. "However, today, we see that they are training militants and terrorists, especially recruiting ex-convicts, individuals with low social responsibility, and unscrupulous people with no humanitarian values at all. Today, their training aims at forming a combat brigade to implement the plot exposed in the documentary," Ryzhenkov emphasized.

He stressed that the documentary’s purpose was to once again alert the international community, as well as the Belarusian and Russian peoples, to the parties behind such schemes.

Earlier, the Belarusian TV channel ONT aired an investigative documentary titled Demons, which revealed that Belarusian intelligence agencies were aware of the details of the Peremoga 2.0 (or Victory 2.0) plan, developed by opposition figures based abroad, to launch an armed invasion of the country with Western backing.