BREST, 23 June (BelTA) - Over the past year, Belarusians have been subjected to the most advanced technologies of hybrid warfare, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at a ceremony to lay wreaths in the Brest Fortress on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War on 22 June, BelTA has learned.
“The invaders (almost all of Europe fought against the Soviet Union) did not understand then why even in the most desperate situations the Soviet soldiers did not give up, how they were able to survive and eventually win,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said. “The descendants of those who in the 1940s were advancing through the Belarusian land towards Moscow, burning houses and destroying people on the way, do not understand us today. They wonder why we still exist on this land as a state. Apparently, they can't understand it."
The president drew attention to the fact that huge financial resources were thrown at the "color blitzkrieg" in Belarus. "Over the past year, we have been subjected to the most advanced hybrid warfare technologies. Belarusians have started asking: the war is looming? Come on, Belarusians. We've been at war for a long time. It's just that the war has taken on different forms. There will be no more wars when they will invade us with thousands of troops through this gate [Brest fortress]. Today the war begins from within the state," the Belarusian leader stressed.
