President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko declared his readiness to use the army during protests. The broadcast of its performance is available on YouTube.
According to Lukashenko, “last year’s events showed who is who”. Russia and Belarus “stayed together”, and Russian president Vladimir Putin offered to assist.
However, the Belarusian leader, he said, replied that he could cope, but asked to create a reserve of security forces in a thousand people.
“I do not think that this reserve would solve some kind of task, because I had a whole army in my reserve. And I even had any muscle who would have faltered in order to put into effect the army if I saw that they did not just move the red feature, but they got harmful, “said Lukashenko.
Previously, he stated that the election of the President in 2020 passed under the conditions of “total publicity” and democratization of political life.