Belarus says US-backed coup, murder plot against Lukashenko thwarted
by tts-admin | Apr 19, 2021 |
Press TV – Apr 19, 2021
A US-backed coup and assassination plot against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has been thwarted in a joint effort by security services of Belarus and Russia, the country’s senior intelligence official revealed.
“As a matter of fact, it was a plotted state coup,” Belarusian State Security Committee’s (KGB) Investigation Director Konstantin Bychek announced on Sunday during an interview with Belarus-1 TV channel, referring to the alleged plot which he said was “the first-ever criminal case on an attempt to seize power” in Belarus.
He further stated that some suspects involved in the alleged plot – including a dual US-Belarusian citizen – were taken into custody and cooperating with investigators.
“Investigative actions continue. The detained persons have been taken to a KGB detention center. They are cooperating with the investigation, giving confessions,” Bychek added, noting that officials have also “issued inquiries to competent justice agencies of foreign states for legal assistance in investigating this criminal case.”
The KGB official then identified the US citizen involved in the scheme as lawyer Yuri Zenkovich, accusing him of collaborating with US spy agencies and engaging in the recruit of Belarusian military service members to “topple” the nation’s authorities.
“Zenkovich was linked with US special services. In Belarus, he tried to recruit and contract servicemen of the Belarusian armed forces and law enforcement agencies who were ready to take part in violent overthrowing of the current authorities for money,” he declared.
He said that according to Belarus’ security services, the man had meetings with servicemen and with representatives of terrorist groups, including those that were nipped by the KGB. “We recorded two cases when illegal money payment meant for servicemen was deposited in secret hiding places,” Bychek said, adding that active search activities were held for six months.
Pointing to Russian cooperation in thwarting the alleged coup plot, Bychek said after receiving a tip in March 2021 about Zenkovich’s visit to Moscow, the KGB contacted our “Russian partners … about the possibility of sending a group of Belarusian agents to Russia.” He then underlined that the detention of the suspects “was conducted jointly with the Russian partners.”
‘A color revolution scenario’
President Lukashenko. Click to enlarge
According to a report by Russia’s TASS news agency, Lukashenko alleged on Saturday that Belarusian political analyst Alexander Feduta, opposition politician Grigory Kostusev as well as Zenkovich “had plotted an assassination attempt on him and his sons,” blaming “US special services and US leaders” for the scheme.
Speaking to Belarusian media, Lukashenko further insisted that the group which includes Zenkovich and Feduta was “definitely the work of foreign intelligence… most likely the CIA or the FBI.”
Pointing to the timing of the coup attempt, the report then cited Belarus’ KGB Chief Ivan Tertel as saying, “the plotters planned a coup for this summer, June or July.”
TASS further cited Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) as saying that its agents had arrested Zenkovich and Feduta “on suspicion of plotting a military coup in Belarus and an assassination attempt on President Alexander Lukashenko,” describing the alleged plot as “a ‘color revolution’ scenario involving Ukrainian nationalists, and assassination of the Belarusian leader.”
US denies involvement as ‘absolutely untrue’
This is while a US State Department spokesman on Sunday denied Washington’s role in the foiled plot to topple and kill the Belarusian president, saying, “Any suggestion that the US government was behind or involved in an assassination attempt on Lukashenko is absolutely untrue.”
Pointing to the reports about the detention of “a dual US citizen” in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, the official added that the department was ready to provide “all appropriate consular services” to the suspect involved in the coup plot.
Opposition members dismiss plot charges as fantasy
According to an RT report, meanwhile, US-based members of the alleged coup plot, who remain free, have dismissed the allegations against them by Belarusian officials, saying “they were simply fantasizing about Lukashenko’s downfall.”
Citing a news story broadcast on Minsk-based ONT network showing Zoom meetings between alleged coup plotters, the report said participants of the video conferences were seven individuals that included the three arrested by security officers. It identified one of the four others as New York-based Pavel Kulazhenko, who denied the existence of a conspiracy and described the meetings as part of “an online discussion club.”
Kulazhenko further claimed that they merely spoke about “the same things that are discussed every evening in every Belarusian family – how to speed up Lukashenko’s retirement.”
Another participant in the Zoom meetings cited by RT was identified as Seattle-based Aleksandr Perepichko, who admitted that a coup was “a prime way to get rid of a bloody dictatorship,” further insisting that “it would have been unprofessional not to discuss various scenarios for regime change in Belarus.”
However, he denied Belarusian official charges that the alleged plotters went further than “venting their dislike of Lukashenko’s rule on Zoom.”
The RT report further pointed out that the ONT segment aired on Sunday also included hidden camera footage of what appeared to be the meeting in Moscow “in which Zenkovich and Feduta detailed their suggestions on how to conduct a successful armed coup.”
They discussed how Lukashenko needs to be “disposed of” and at least 30 in Minsk – presumably top officials – need to be “interned literally within the first hour.”
Russia’s FSB also described the plan discussed during the meeting as involving the killing of “almost the entire leadership” of Belarus, a military coup, and a power blackout of the entire country.
“It was suggested that the active phase would be launched by some armed groups (‘partisans’), who are currently stationed at ‘secret bases’,” the FSB stated.
The action was reportedly scheduled for May 9, when Belarus holds a military parade dedicated to the victory over Nazi Germany in 1945, the RT report said.
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“Any suggestion that the US government was behind or involved in an assassination attempt on Lukashenko is absolutely untrue.”
Well, now we all know it’s true
The lawless US were probably after gaining another springboard directly into Russia which reinforces the belief the idiots really are after war and are not just being reckless.
There is simply not enough decent people left in the US to save the nation from itself. The Western-based international banking cabal running the place with all of the major corporations through virtually every official and secret organization, has an agenda which includes dominance over all of the Middle East including Iran and the subjugation of Russia. Lukashenko has leaned towards Russian than to the Western cabal, and lest we forget it is this same cabal which is also baking the UN Agendas and the entire Covid scam. Last summer Lukashenko slighted and deeply angered the cabal and their US and UK minions when he refused IMF and World Bank bribes in exchange for him shutting Belarus down in compliance with their Covid lockstep psyop these banks have been underwriting everywhere else. For his temerity in rebuffing and exposing the bankster economic hit men, the policy of US and UK centered corporatocracy would be to send in the jackals, and that is likely what has happened.
Another query: If we were really going to war with Russia, Putin would expose the entire Covid scam, revealing the pressures on his nation for compliance from the banking cartel and from the Western powers running the entire globalist movement. He would also declare where the virus actually came from and how it was released. In doing this he would be a hero not only to his own people but he would effectively dissolve any credibility and trust in Western leadership. Because Putin continues to play the Covid-lite game, we are far from an actual war, and we have to wonder if he is just another puppet of the cabal?
Good, now Belarus will merge into a Union with Russia as Lukashenko twice announced since yesterday. Ukraine is almost surrounded now. Belarusian airbases were already in use by Russia.
Fred B: Re “…is [Putin] just another puppet of the cabal?”
The answer to this question struck me when Putin chose to keep mum about 9/11 (thereby serving to corroborate/bolster the official narrative).
Really? When just about any third-rate country on the planet with a half-baked intel agency figured out what REALLY happened within a matter of hours, Putin’s mighty colossus could not?! If Putin was legit, he would’ve spilt the beans about 9/11 on Day One and thereby derailed the whole NWO agenda.
Alas, deluded, I hung my hat on this bogus ‘savior’ for far too long. Btw, ditto Trump; this homegrown puppet was NYC’s preeminent real estate mogul. He (along with his attorney Giuliani) was intimately linked at every level with the small group of NYC Jewish-Israeli kingpins who facilitated this Mossad op. If not directly involved (at some level), Trump absolutely HAD to have known about practically every facet of 9/11.
And here we are, nearly twenty years later, with the sheep still waiting for Trump to come to their rescue. Right. Bottom line: It’s ALL a psyop. We’re all being massively played by this global troupe of puppets. In my view, only two possibilities can save the day: 1) A massive ‘hundredth monkey’-like grassroots awakening (unlikely; the sheep are now practically brain dead); or 2) ET intervention (not entirely unlikely).
I was for Putin until he lets the jews get away with killing Russians and he also kisses Nutinyaawho’s ass. The Russia people should realize how much they suffered from these jews in the past. Putin’s mother was jewish and a person cannot be considered jewish unless his mother is jewish.
jewish assasinations plot.
he hinders jew world order !
@ Viamus
When you look a the troops manning the borders on each side wearing Covid masks, you really have to wonder. Guess they will also have to avoid hand-to-hand combat and social distance lest they transmit the mysterious virus.
ha ha America doesn’t fantasise it Kills leaders it can’t control, exterminate citizens.
Just ask those in Vietnam whom the US killed 3 million, ask Panama, Chille, Iraq, Lybia, Syria, Cambodia, Germnay, Iran, Indonesia, ukraine. You can’t ask Ukraine because The US Puppet is too scared to answer.
You can see it in Zelensky eyes that he is afraid of America’s wrath.
All these countries were de populated by American forces.
America is International Pariah.
The people responsible for this are Jewish.
The Jews have largely done this too America to wesr it down, physically, mentally, culturally, spiritually, emotionally and financially.
The Jews are currently tearing America up.
It’s like a play thing for them.
I think if the US Military grew a spine and just bombed Israel off the map things would be a whole lot different but America is now lost.
I am willing to fight and die for Mother Russia against the true Axil of Evil America, United and Israel.
The total annihilation and extermination of all things Zionits should be #1 Goal of all countries.
Its them that are killing Christianity and whites.
I hate that diabolical parasitic Jew with every fibre of my Body.
Putin is going to take care of Russia and the Russian people. He is never going to stand against Israel. He is never going to expose Jewish PSYOPS like 9-11 and Covid 19. As I exposed on my Blog, almost all world leaders are puppets to the Zionist snake or they would not be allowed to be world leaders. Putin will go so far but no further and those who see him as a white knight who will stand up against the Jew World Order are bound to be disappointed. This is the world we live in where corruption is the norm and true heroes are very rare. The world needs a savior but Putin is not it.
To Vivamus–putting together the fact that Trump’s uncle nabbed he Tesla Papers and what Judy Wood said about the towers being pulverised, I wondered once whether the Presidency was a reward for helping with the demolition. The usual kind would damage neighbouring buildings.
Thomas P: Makes sense. One thing’s certain: Putin isn’t the “free world®”‘s White Knight. I recently came across his maternal Jewish bloodline (openly disclosed in his 1990 passport application). Well, I should think that rather neatly ties up the man’s connection to the cabal? However, you could be right in that (despite his ‘inalienable’ fealty to Mother Israel) he might have genuine ‘patriotic’ heartstrings that pull, however feebly, towards the wellbeing/preservation of mother Russia. Russians are known to be a fiercely (almost uniquely) patriotic people.
Lewis J: Re Trump possibly having been gifted the presidency: could well be. Btw, I’m familiar with the (Tesla-based) work of Uncle Trump, as well as the brilliant research of Dr Wood (a real hero; met her). Personally, I’ve no doubt DEWs were used on 9/11 — ie, as the principal force, albeit in concert with other more conventional technologies (NT, Semtex). The perps clearly had multiple layers of redundancy built into the op — they had only ONE chance to get it right and could afford ZERO errors. [Eg, the Flt 93 shoot-down and highly risky delayed demolition of Bld 7 were two examples (likely connected) of unintended off-script traversals.]