Russia’s Ambassador in Minsk Dmitry Mezentsev has commented on the arrest of 33 of Russians in Belarus. According to him, the detainees who may be employees of a private security company, were Belarus transit. Earlier Minsk are accused of preparing mass riots in the country. “The Russians, who arrived in the sanatorium “Belorusochka” of Minsk, was forced to do due to the fact that I was late for a flight from national airport of the capital of the Republic, heading the transit to a third country. They had intended to fly from Minsk on 25 July and is not believed to be in the Republic how whatever for a long time, and much later planned to return to the Russian capital from another state by plane, bypassing the territory of Belarus,” the Ambassador said. The Russian diplomat added that the basis for the arrival of the Russians was the contract “with one of the commercial firms that registered in Belarus.” Each of the guests Russians, he said, had a with this company working agreement. “According to information that still remains to be clarified, the Russians can be employees of a private security company, which in the context of fulfillment of obligations under the commercial contract is intended to ensure the protection of energy infrastructure and resources abroad, not in Belarus,” he said. Mr. Mezentsev said that the charges of attempted intervention of the Russians in the internal Affairs of Belarus have no reason to. He said that “the wearing of a camouflage as well as the reluctance to support hospitable Slavic tradition, “unwillingness” to raise “good glass” for friends during the stay in any sanatoriums of Belarus does not see the basis for such intense media attention as the basis for law enforcement actions without a compelling and valid reason”. At the meeting with the Minister of foreign Affairs of Belarus Vladimir Makeyev, the Russian Ambassador asked soon to provide access of consular officials to the detainees. Read далее33 citizen of Russia was detained in Belarus on the eve, July 29. KGB claims that they are fighters “PMC Wagner.” Law enforcement agencies of Belarus also said that in the country there are another 170 Russian mercenaries, now there is their search. In the Kremlin information about that from Russia to Belarus could send someone to destabilize the situation, called the “insinuations”. Detentions — in the material “Kommersant” “the Case of the PMC soldiers in Belarus became a criminal”.
