Russia points to American trace in plot against Belarus President

30 апреля 2021

The scale of the coup d'état in Belarus suggests that a foreign government was involved in it. This was stated by Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the President of Russia, in an interview to the program "Big Game" on Channel 1.

Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the President of Russia: We've heard the confessions and we have an idea of the scope of the conspiracy. It wasn't just about eliminating the President, about taking hostage of his family members, but it was about such sophisticated actions as shutting down and blocking the power grid of the entire country. As you can understand, a group of immigrants in America cannot talk about cyber actions aimed at blocking the country's power grid. Without the help or instruction of "State X," it is impossible to perform such actions and even impossible to plan them. This is an indisputable fact that we can operate with.

Dmitry Peskov stressed that there are no exact indications that President Biden himself was involved in the plot and it's unlikely that we will have any. However, the Russian side "certainly has" a clear understanding of the level of American involvement in the situation related to Belarus.