Eventually, everything ended well and all the trucks – both from the Ukrainian and from the Polish side – returned to their families.
Ukrainian Ambassador to Belarus Igor Kizim commented on the “special operation” to return Belarusian truckers under the auspices of the KGB, saying that Minsk had taken hostage Ukrainian drivers. Kizim wrote this on Facebook on June 1st.
“It’s not really clear why the KGB attributes all these“ successes ”to itself, because Belarusian diplomats have done at least (if not more) to bring Belarusian citizens home, especially , through the Ukrainian embassy in Belarus, ”the diplomat. said.
He admitted that there were some difficulties with the return of Belarusian truckers, but Ukraine would not stop anyone.
“Each department has its own” interests “, and everything related to security issues becomes the main one during the war. This, of course, dragged on in the process. Although, for example, our consul was there was constant telephone contact with Belarusians in Chernivtsi, as well as with their relatives in Belarus and with representatives of the Ministry of Transport, and when the bodies of two Belarusians died from a missile strike ( clear where the rocket came from) was taken to Korosten, not only Ukrainian and The consuls of Belarus and representatives of the Ministry of Transport, as well as colleagues in Poland, were brought here, generally do not go, “said is Kizim.
According to the Ukrainian ambassador, the Belarusian KGB’s participation in the “special operation” was limited to calls on him with “warnings”.
“It turned out like this. Ukrainian representatives of road carriers talked to the Russians on the mutual exchange of drivers who went to Russia (Ukrainian) and to Ukraine (Russian). An agreement has been reached in place of the “exchange” would be the border crossing in Brest.When the Russians crossed the border and went to Belarus, the Belarusian border guards did not release the Ukrainians and set the condition that they would be released only as “exchange for on their own. ”That is, they actually took Ukrainian drivers hostage,” Kizim summarized.
He noted that eventually everything ended well and all the trucks – both from the Ukrainian and from the Polish side – returned to their families.
Recall, on the eve of the self -proclaimed President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that the KGB of the Republic of Belarus “without a shot” conducted a “special operation in Ukraine to liberate the citizens of Belarus”, and handed out awards for implementation.
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Source: korrespondent
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