DISINFO: Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Germany and the US plan a coup in Belarus

DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS

  • Outlet: Rossiya 24 - YouTube ( archive, original )
  • Date of publication: July 05, 2021
  • Article language(s): Russian
  • Countries / regions discussed: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, US, Germany

DISINFO: Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Germany and the US plan a coup in Belarus

SUMMARY

Sleeping terrorist cells have been uncovered - according to intelligence services, the conspirators were planning to destroy the communications center of the Russian navy in the city of Vileika, set fire to equipment and other provocations. The ultimate goal is a coup. Violent change of power on day X. They themselves do not yet know what kind of day X it is. It is necessary to bring our people, our State to this day X, as they believe,. The coordinators are Lithuania, Poland, the United States of America, Ukraine and the Federal Republic of Germany.

RESPONSE

Recurring disinformation about Belarus claiming that the West is plotting against it.

Western countries are not interfering, but reacting to events in Belarus, including oppression against civil society and for example, the forced landing of Ryanair flight FR4978 in Minsk on 23 May 2021.

The EU did not recognise the falsified results of the Belarusian Presidential election on 9 August 2020 or the new mandate claimed by Alyaksandr Lukashenka.

The EU imposed new restrictive measures against the Belarusian regime to respond to the escalation of serious human rights violations in Belarus and the violent repression of civil society, democratic opposition and journalists, as well as to the forced landing of a Ryanair flight in Minsk on 23 May 2021 and the related detention of journalist Raman Pratasevich and Sofia Sapega.

However, the EU continues to support the Belarusian people and civil society and outlined a 3 billion EUR economic support package to a future democratic Belarus.

See similar disinformation cases alleging that Russia has neutralised many Western attempts to topple the Belarusian government; the West pursues Maidan policy towards Belarus to encircle Russia; European policy of interference in Belarus continues and deepens.

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