Lukashenko: “We have nowhere to retreat”

“If someone touches a serviceman, he must leave at least without hands,” Alexander Lukashenko said, thus warning the protesters.

“We endured. I immediately indicated: there are red lines. And God forbid someone crosses them. They crossed them in many directions, I spoke about this. Therefore, those who today go to the railroad, those who hang fascist banners on power lines, in a word, those who today are trying to destroy and destabilize the infrastructure of the state, should know: from today, especially in the apartments of citizens where they hide, we We don't take anyone prisoner. If someone touches a serviceman, he must leave at least without hands. I say this publicly so that everyone understands our further determination. Further - everything. We have nowhere to retreat, and we are not going to retreat,” Lukashenka said at a meeting with employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the state agency BelTA reports .

At the meeting, the President introduced the new Interior Minister Ivan Kubrakov and the head of the Minsk police department Mikhail Grib to the security officials.