Checkpoint on the Ukrainian border. Archival photoMINSK, March 19 The Belarusian state television channel Belarus 1 reported that at the checkpoint Ukrainian border guards threatened the Belarusian delegation led by Ambassador to Ukraine Igor Sokol in order to open the diplomatic mail.» Our delegation was taken away three walkie-talkies, tore the packages, gutted all the boxes, threatened with a machine gun in order to open the diplomatic bag,» the TV channel reported.Lukashenka is “practically convinced” that Belarus will not fight with Ukraine. They said that the purpose of the Ukrainian border guards was to provoke the Belarusian side, but she did not succumb to this. Ukrainian checkpoint Mogilev-Podolsky. In the video, a Ukrainian border guard with a machine gun suggests the Belarusian diplomat to take «thirty pieces of silver» to hand them over to the head of the State Border Committee of Belarus, explaining this by order of the leadership of the Ukrainian border service. Sokol says that this is not an order for him, leaves the building of the checkpoint, the Ukrainian border guard throws a bag of coins at the Belarusian ambassador. a member of the families of diplomats in seven cars. «We ourselves were subjected to such sharp, rather ugly movements and our cars. My car … the ambassador was completely inspected, unpacked, even the internal elements of the skin were removed, many personal belongings were inspected,» the diplomat said. He said that the Belarusian diplomats had entered to the Ukrainian checkpoint on March 18 at 17.30, the ambassador left it at 20.00, and the last member of the delegation left at 9.00 on March 19. «That is, each employee, the car was inspected for 2-3 hours,» Sokol said. The Belarusian diplomat said that during this time Belarusian diplomats observed the attitude of Ukrainian border guards towards the citizens of Ukraine itself, and called it «complete lawlessness under the guise of wartime laws , bordering on outright looting», when, under the pretext of defense needs, you can seize the thing you like. «We observed cars and personal belongings confiscated for defense needs,» Sokol said. in Ukraine
