Putin claims that he has police forces to intervene in Belarus if the situation "gets out of control"

Russian President Vladimir Putin assured this Thursday in an interview with public television that Russia is willing to intervene with police forces in neighboring Belarus if the situation gets out of control. “Alexandr Grigorevich [Lukashenko's patronymic] asked me to form a contingent of members of the security forces and I did. But we also agreed that it will not be used as long as the situation does not get out of control, "Putin told Rossia 1 channel.

The Russian president has assured that Russia behaves in a much more moderate way with regard to Belarus than Europeans and Americans do.

In fact, Putin has accused US espionage of being behind, together with Ukrainian intelligence, the operation that led to the arrest in Belarus of 33 Russian mercenaries before the Belarusian presidential elections of last day 9. Minsk accused these men of seeking to destabilize the country and opened an unusual diplomatic incident with Moscow. “These people, I insist, were traveling for work to a third country. They were thrown like a decoy across the border. It was an operation of the Ukrainian intelligence agencies together with the American ones, ”said the Russian leader.