Lithuania’s State Security Department (VSD) has warned about a fake document spreading on Facebook and claiming that the Lithuanian intelligence service is training Belarusian paramilitary groups.
The VSD says this is part of an ongoing information campaign against Lithuania in the run-up to the forthcoming presidential election in Belarus.
“The alleged VSD document published on Facebook about intelligence activities in connection to the preparation of Belarusian paramilitary groups is a blatant forgery that has nothing to do with the VSD’s real activities and should be considered as part of an ongoing information campaign against Lithuania,” the department said on Facebook.
“We are observing more active implementation of this campaign in the run-up to the presidential election in Belarus,” it added.
The presidential election in Belarus will be held on January 26, four years and six months after mass protests erupted in Belarus over alleged vote rigging. The country’s authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko and his riot police then launched a brutal crackdown on protesters.
Lukashenko, who has been in power in Belarus since 1994, has eradicated the opposition and imprisoned hundreds of critics and protesters.
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