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Belarus leader says detained journalist was plotting ‘bloody rebellion’

Belarus leader says detained journalist was plotting ‘bloody rebellion’

TOM BALMFORTH and MARIA KESELYOVA BELARUSIAN President Alexander Lukashenko has claimed that a journalist pulled off a plane that was forced to land in Minsk had been plotting a rebellion, and he accused the West of waging a hybrid war against him. In his first public remarks since a Belarusian warplane intercepted a Ryanair flight on Sunday between European Union members Greece and Lithuania, he showed no hint of backing down from a confrontation with countries that accuse him of air piracy. "As we predicted, our ill-wishers from outside the country and from inside the country changed their methods of…
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