“We refused entry to 170 persons overnight and in the morning. They either showed fake visas or could not explain why they were going. And there were people whom we expelled from the country, ”TASS quotes him.
According to Lukashenka, these individuals included citizens of Ukraine and Russia, most of whom entered from Ukrainian and Polish territory.
“Due to recent events, Belarus has strengthened not control, but observation on the Belarusian-Russian section of the border,” he added.
Earlier, Lukashenka said that he considers the question of whether the situation with the detention of 33 Russians in the republic a provocation by a third state is secondary.
He added that he received a letter from his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin outlining the facts around the situation with the Russians detained in the republic.
At the end of July, it became known about the detention of 33 Russians in Belarus, who are suspected of preparing riots.
Russian Ambassador to Minsk Dmitry Mezentsev said that there are facts that indicate that the detention of citizens was a provocation organized from a third country.