Poland
Monday 23 May 2022
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Anatoly Glaz
Press secretary for Belarus Foreign Ministry
“The world still remembers well the events of 2015-2016, when refugees spent months sheltering under the open sky in European capitals. Not to mention the ongoing loss of life in the Mediterranean region, the English Channel and the Polish forests.”
Read more...The refugee crisis was largely caused by Russia and its intense bombing campaign to help Syrian ally Bashar al-Assad in the civil war. -
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Russian Embassy in South Africa Twitter account
Russian Foreign Ministry social media account
“82 years ago the USSR-Finland 'Winter War' started … amid forthcoming #WW2 and Third Reich’s enhancing military cooperation with #Finland. Why was Finland viewed by USSR as Hitler’s probable ally?“
Read more...The Soviet Union and Germany were de facto allies when the Soviets invaded Finland in 1939. Germany even blocked military aid to Finland. -
![Alexander Lukashenko]()
Alexander Lukashenko
president of Belarus
“We are heating Europe. They are still threatening us that they will close the border. And if we shut off natural gas there?”
Read more...Belarus does not heat Europe; it simply transits natural gas from Russia. Experts say Lukashenko could never shut the pipeline without the Kremlin’s approval. -
![Sergey Lavrov]()
Sergey Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister
“Yesterday, in some political science discussions, they asked: Why, when refugees came from Turkey to the European Union, the EU allocated funding so they stay on the territory of the Republic of Turkey? Why is it also impossible to help Belarusians who have certain needs so that refugees, whom Poland and Lithuania do not want to let on their territory, live in normal conditions?”
Read more...Belarus has been luring and flying in Middle Eastern migrants to send them to the Polish and Lithuanian borders. -
![Alexander Lukashenko]()
Alexander Lukashenko
President of Belarus
"Poland decided to fight illegal migration on the border with Belarus with the help of Leopard tanks. … Are they going to use tanks against civilians?"
Read more...Poland has sent additional troops to the border in response to Belarusian human trafficking, but not tanks. -
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TASS
Russian state news agency
“Russia has repeatedly denied the accusations of complicity in hacker attacks in Germany. No German agency or organization concerned has provided any evidence that might prove the charges …”
Read more...The cyber intrusions in Germany are attributed to the hacker collective Ghostwriter, which has been associated with Russia. -
![Alexander Lukashenko]()
Alexander Lukashenko
President of Belarus
“Starting from Belavia, when those crazy people [abroad] started to stifle our company. Now it is clear why.”
Read more...In fact, the EU banned Belavia because Belarus forced an Irish plane to land in Minsk to arrest an opposition journalist. -
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Belta
Belarusian state news agency
“As it has been reported, the coaching staff of the national athletics team decided to withdraw Krystsina Tsimanouskaya from the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in connection with her emotional and psychological state.”
Read more...Tsimanouskaya said Belarusian Olympic team officials attempted to force her onto a flight to Belarus. She refused and has been offered asylum in Poland. -
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BELTA
Belarusian state media outlet
“The pilot-in-command however decided to make a turn and head to Minsk. No one forced him to do this, no one gave him such a command. … He could have decided to keep going and left the Belarusian airspace within two minutes.”
Read more...The claim is contradicted by flight data, witnesses, and even earlier statements by Belarus government sources. -
![Vladimir Putin]()
Vladimir Putin
President of Russian Federation
“I mean the recently known facts of a direct attempt to organize a coup d'etat in Belarus and the assassination of the President of this country. At the same time, it is characteristic that even such flagrant actions are not condemned by the so-called collective West.”
Read more...Analysts see a clandestine security service hand in claims of a plot to take down the conspiracy-theory prone Belarusian leader. -
![Maria Zakharova]()
Maria Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman
“The Red Army liberated European nations from the Nazi plague and brought peace and freedom to them.”
Read more...The Red Army did drive the Nazis out of Hungary and other Central/Eastern European countries, but the Soviets ushered in an era of dictatorships. -
![Mahmut Gul]()
Mahmut Gul
Vice Chair of Yeni Refah Partisi (New or Re-Welfare Party)
"[T]he countries belonging to the Western culture do not sign the convention for moral reasons and those who signed it keep on withdrawing from it."
Read more...45 countries and the EU signed the EU Convention on protecting women against violence, and 34 of them ratified it. None have withdrawn from it, but Turkey and Poland are considering doing so.
