Who pushes Belarusians to war, and who calls for sabotage in Belarus - investigation by Panorama

25 марта 2022
The information war is breaking out on all fronts. There is a massive attack. The money is invested and they need to work it out. So who is pushing the Belarusians into war? Who brings together the squads of cutthroats that are already shooting in Ukraine? Who calls for sabotage on the railroad in Belarus and similar things?

These people have specific names and surnames. There is a Western media cover-up. There are militant training centers. There is one in Warsaw. They train Belarusian mercenaries and then send them to Ukraine. Learn about it from our report

My mother cries. And probably prays, too. She tried to tell me that it wasn't my war, it wasn't our war, that it was a different country, but I disagreed.

He hides his face and name and mocks at his own mother.  This guy is one of the Belarusian mercenaries in Ukraine. The BBC British television channel shows people like him as heroes. The Western media methodically throws in the thesis: Belarus, Belarusians and war are one and the same thing. The headlines go like this: "More and more Belarusians are going to fight for Ukraine." 

Alexei Avdonin, analyst at the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies: 
We see that destructive elements, which conditionally worked for the technology of velvet revolutions of soft power, now understand that you can make money, get money and grants from customers only by switching to extremism, to the work of destructive units, focused on the death and destruction of people. 

Pavel Kulazhenko is another hero of the Western media report. He is a runaway traitor security official from Belarus. Previously, he had been exposed as a participant in the discussion of the plan to assassinate the President of Belarus. Now he serves in military formations of Ukraine. It's a place for former compatriots. He enjoys telling us how he uses humanitarian signs and symbols to cover up downright terror.

Pavel Kulazhenko:
The vehicles that brought the humanitarian aid here had already made it to the base without any adventures, and only later they were used by the combat team on a combat mission. 

The West makes not only stories about Belarusian mercenary thugs. There are mobilization centers in Warsaw where they undergo military training before being sent to Ukraine. They talk about it and show it themselves. This is the address for accepting new applications.

Prokopiev: 
This is an appeal to the Belarusian volunteers who are ready to defend Ukraine with weapons in their hands. The process is starting to get more organized, we're in touch with the foreign legion commander. Contact the address below in Warsaw. There is a contact person in Warsaw, we urgently need 300 volunteers and another 300 within a week. 

People like Yevgeny Mikhasyuk, another mercenary from Belarus, are happy to join the marginal thugs. The radical nationalist took part in the protests. Now he is fighting for a country whose ideology is neo-Nazism. 

Tikhanovskaya and others like her call for terrorist attacks in Belarus and the formation of militias in Ukraine.

Tihanovskaya:
Disable equipment, Russian army supply lines, software. Sabotage supplies to military camps. 

The Belarusian anti-war movement, which prevents the regime from waging war. What do its members do? People inside the country allegedly disable the approach routes of military hardware, working against propaganda. Belarusians from abroad are allegedly going to your front.

But these are words for the public. And what do people like Tihanovskaya say to those whom they call to organize sabotage, to fight under other people's banners, to be criminals? This is explained by a Belarusian mercenary who has been fighting in Donbass since 2015.


Belarusian mercenary: I killed people in Ukraine


Belarusian mercenary: 
We were holding guns, we were killing Ukrainians, foreigners. The major problem is that before going to war, many of us, nationals of pother states, asked: how are we going to carry on war? We don't want to be criminals. Avakov told us: go and fight, we will give you citizenship especially for you under a simplified procedure. 

That is, criminals are promised forgiveness for their crimes. They just have to win. That's the whole philosophy of these Belarusian illegal formations. As in a fair fight they simply do not stand a chance, but sooner or later the war will end. 

Ilya Begun, blogger, IT specialist:
Who do you think will be turned in first? These are all those who come to fight under those red-white-red flags. What do they need you for? You are not Ukrainians. You are nothing to them, just a cannon fodder, which can temporarily act as a media flag for them, so that the whole world arrived here. As a few hundred people arrived, they left in zinc coffins. Don't confuse propaganda with facts.