"This is betrayal." Ukrainian supporters of Lukashenko were not allowed into Belarus
Belarusian border guards did not allow Ukrainian journalists and anti-Maidan bloggers into the country.
Journalist Dmitry Vasilets and blogger Alexander Semchenko wanted to come to Minsk to see what was happening in the country with their own eyes and produce an unbiased report, but they were turned away at the Belarusian border, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Vasilets and Semchenko linked the refusal of their pass to Belarus to the fact that among the border guards there are employees sympathetic to the opposition.
“We sincerely wanted to come to Belarus and support Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko. But it turned out that betrayal penetrated into many areas, apparently, into the border service, the Border Committee of Belarus was also penetrated by traitors. Because at first they were loyal, and then, when they heard what we were for, and when later they got into social networks...” said Semchenko.
“We decided to just be honest about why we were going there. We could invent all sorts of nonsense, that we were going to the village to visit our grandfather, to a wedding. We decided to tell it like it is and hoped for some kind of clear, adequate reaction. Actually, unfortunately, there was no adequate reaction, because as soon as they found out why we were going, and as soon as we asked them to sort out the situation, they went away somewhere, and then came with one single answer,” Vasilets added.
PolitNavigator previously reported that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's inner circle is recruiting Russian journalists to work for state media.
English version :: Read in English "This is treason." Ukrainian supporters of Lukashenko were not allowed into Belarus.