Ukrainian saboteur Shvets: I was told Belarusians are enemies

Nikolai Shvets (Gaspar), accused of committing an act of terrorism, confessed in his talk with the Belarus 1 TV channel that he had discovered another Belarus, BelTA reports

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"I now perceive Belarus and Belarusians far from the way they have been described since the beginning of 2020 in our country. It [Belarus] is a European state. I will tell you honestly: I am subscribed to your opposition channels. I actually listened to them and, naturally, a view was generated in my mind that Belarus is the enemy. I think completely differently now. I lived here a month before I was put in jail, and seven months have passed since my imprisonment. Peace is paramount here. There is peace here, no one is being killed here. Everyone respects each other," Nikolai Shvets said.

"When I was coming here, I thought that the military was walking around here at every step. That's how I imagined the situation. Actually, the actions I committed are an attempt to make some kind of mess here, to force your Government to declare war on us, for example," the Ukrainian saboteur noted. “I would like to say that Belarusians should take care of peace, because a war is awful. It brings death and much grief. I know what I am talking about, and that's why I came from there. Do not the war come to you, do not succumb to provocations. Be grateful to those people who are courageously trying to prevent war in such difficult conditions for Belarus."

As previously reported, on the morning of February 26th, a citizen of Ukraine, Nikolai Shvets, born in 1993, a recruited agent of the Security Service of Ukraine, tried to blow up a Russian aircraft at the Machulishchi airfield. To detain him, the State Security Committee, in co-operation with the Interior Ministry, the State Border Committee and other law enforcement agencies, conducted a large-scale special operation. Nikolai Shvets acted under the pseudonym of Gaspar. Several dozen more surnames appear in the case: these people helped and assisted Shvets. Some did it from abroad, but most of them operated in Belarus. In fact, foreign intelligence agencies created a network of agents who helped carry out the terrorist attack near Minsk. All the defendants in the criminal case were charged under Part 3 of Article 289 (act of terrorism committed by an organised group) of Belarus’ Criminal Code, which provides for punishment up to the death penalty.