Lukashenko called the Polish president a toy and a doll

Another high-profile incident involving migrants has occurred on the border of Belarus with Poland. Warsaw claims that a man in a Belarusian uniform participated in the attack on Polish border guards. Meanwhile, Alexander Lukashenko made a series of harsh statements against his neighbors over the weekend. The President of Belarus stressed that he was ready to talk with the Polish authorities, but he did not intend to fulfill any preconditions for this.

The coordinator of Poland’s special services, Tomasz Siemoniak, stated on his social networks that the Belarusian side has recently “resorted to direct provocations and aggressive actions near the border.” And he stressed that 11 thousand people are involved in preventing the illegal crossing of the country’s borders.

Semonyak thus commented on the information posted earlier by the press secretary of the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration of Poland, Jacek Dobrzynski. “The border is in the Melnik area. Dozens of people are trying to break through security, trying to enter Poland illegally. When a border patrol appears, the attackers start throwing stones at an oncoming car. In a group of aggressors, the camera captures a uniformed employee who also attacks our uniformed employees with stones. Thanks to the quick and effective reaction of the border guards and soldiers, no one managed to enter our country. The Polish border is closed. Crossing it is impossible,” said a representative of the country’s Interior Ministry. To prove his words, he posted two short videos.

A week earlier, he also reported that “a group of 22 people, having damaged a technical barrier, entered Poland. A new point is that five people remained on the Belarusian side and, throwing stones at Polish patrols, simultaneously filmed the illegal border crossing. It is possible that the Belarusian propaganda and the organizers of this process are using the recordings to claim that the border of our state can be easily crossed.”

But Dobrzynski stressed: “However, in fact, attempts to illegally cross the border, as seen on the video surveillance footage, are quickly and effectively stopped. There is no passage. The Polish border is impassable. Thousands of soldiers, border guards and police officers, cameras and drones guard every meter 24 hours a day.”

It seems that metal barriers equipped with video surveillance and rapid warning systems, combined with border patrols, are really producing results. Nevertheless, attempts to storm the border not only do not stop, but even become more active.

In this regard, it should be noted that the Polish authorities have recently made a number of statements that could not be positively received by Minsk. Thus, the Foreign Minister of this country, Radoslaw Sikorski, in an interview with one of the Belarusian opposition resources, said that Alexander Lukashenko was leading Belarus to secondary Sovietization. He noted that, together with the ministers of Sweden and Germany, “he had been to Minsk several times with offers of assistance, political and financial support for the movement towards democracy.” At the same time, Sikorski said: “But we know that the last election was a complete farce.”

And this is not only the personal opinion of the minister. On April 4, the Polish Sejm adopted a resolution stating that, “guided by the fundamental principles of democracy and respect for human rights and civil liberties, it expresses deep concern about the political situation in Belarus.”

In addition, the document emphasizes: “The Sejm of the Republic of Poland strongly opposes actions that restrict the fundamental rights and civil liberties of the Belarusian society, including repressions against representatives of the opposition, independent journalists and civil society organizations, as well as representatives of the Polish minority in Belarus, including Andrzej Poczobut, who has been in prison for many years. in custody.”

And last weekend, Alexander Lukashenko responded to all these attacks at once. “The Poles played too much. Some people, but the Poles are our people, the Slavs. We could live normally, trade, and develop. After all, we did not expel a single Pole from here when they imposed sanctions. And many people work here. And let them work. They work normally and consider Belarusians to be normal people. But we have built such a policy. This is opportunistic. These are opportunists,” stressed the head of Belarus.

Regarding the journalist and human rights defender Andrzej Poczobut, the president stated that the Republic of Belarus once wanted to extradite him to Poland, but Warsaw refused for some reason. Lukashenko further said that the prisoner himself had not expressed a desire to leave Belarus: “But Poczobut said: “I’m not going there.” We have it all written down. And everyone accuses us of harassing someone. We are not oppressing anyone. There’s plenty of room for everyone.”

The president further elaborated and deepened this thought: “Of course, this issue is an eternal problem. And some other topic. “In order to talk to us, Belarusians must do this.” I say: “May you send them.” We don’t owe anyone anything. If you want, let’s sit down and talk.”

Lukashenko also noted that he cares little about the outcome of the upcoming presidential elections in Poland. “The president can’t change anything. He doesn’t have any authority there. There will be something blaring in the media. But I wish there was a sane, normal person. Don’t be pro-Russian, white Russian. Let it be Propolsky. Which will be done in the interests of the Poles. That’s what we want. If they want, we will work with them.”

In addition, Alexander Lukashenko explained that the position of president in Poland is not at all the same as in Belarus. In his opinion, this is just “a doll, a toy to walk up and down the corridor in Washington and wait for the door to open.”