The mass protests that occurred in Belarus on August 9 were controlled from Poland, the United Kingdom, and the Czech Republic, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said.
“We recorded, and you know that as a former intelligence officer, phone calls coming in from abroad. The calls were made from Poland, the United Kingdom, and the Czech Republic in order to control, pardon me, our sheep: they don’t understand what they’re doing, so they’re being controlled,” the Belarusian state-run news agency BelTA quoted Lukashenko as saying at a meeting with the head of the Commonwealth of Independent States election observation mission, Sergei Lebedev, on Aug. 10.
