Kremlin says Russian special services have proofs of plot against Lukashenko tass.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tass.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In a special operation conducted by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation alongside the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus (KGB), the illegal activities of Yuri Leonidovich Zyankovich, a dual citizen of the United States and the Republic of Belarus, and Belarusian citizen Alexander Feduta were prevented, as those had been scheming to stage a military coup in Belarus in accordance with the tried and tested ‘color revolution’ scenario with the involvement of local and Ukrainian nationalists, as well as the physical removal of President Alexander Lukashenko, the FSB said.
The FSB said, according to proactive information received from the Belarusian partners, in private chats of an internet messenger the ideologists of radical opposition Zyankovich and Feduta organized discussion of a plan of armed uprising in Belarus and decided to hold an in-person meeting in Moscow, using available measures of secrecy, with the opposition-minded generals o
Welcome to the battlefield of the future.
Harry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter
Apr 14 2021, 10:38 ET
Updated: Apr 14 2021, 10:40 ET
THE Russian military has announced that it is lining up its first unit featuring robot tanks.
The remotely piloted machines, called Uran-9, can be armed with machine guns, flamethrowers and anti-tank missiles.
7
They ll work alongside troops to assist combat, carry out reconnaissance and offer fire support.
It comes as tensions between the US President Joe Biden and Russian leader Vladimir Putin escalate over the Ukraine crisis.
Putin is amassing forces on the frontiers of its neighbouring country, a move that has led calls from Biden to stand down or risk retribution.