The Kremlin today for the first time reacted to the detention in Belarus of 33 Russians, who in the allied country are considered militants of the PMC Wagner. Dmitry Peskov said that in Russia there are also “many Belarusian citizens who wear the same clothes and behave uncharacteristically, do not drink alcohol and so on. This does not mean that they are doing something illegal,” RIA Novosti reported.

The press secretary of the President of Russia stated that:

Russia still has no data on the illegal activities of the detainees. “We see and hear official statements by representatives of Minsk that the Russians, they say, are involved in plans to destabilize the situation on the territory of Belarus on the eve of the presidential elections. We do not have any other information," Peskov said.
Russia does not recognize the Ukrainian citizenship of some of the detainees: "they are citizens of Russia." Just today, the SBU did not rule out that it would ask Belarus to extradite some of the detainees to Ukraine.
Statements about an attempt to destabilize the situation in Belarus by the Russian side on the eve of the elections are "nothing but insinuations." Russia of "dirty intentions" the day before President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko personally accused .
Putin will not call Lukashenka about the detainees. Moscow hopes that countries will have enough communication through law enforcement agencies.

Why would the authorities of Belarus detain Russian citizens 10 days before the elections, The Bell explained here . Today it became known that they are accused of preparing terrorist attacks.

The Kremlin responded for the first time to the detention of Russians in Belarus