Belarus KGB claims to have foiled terrorist attack on Russian consulate, arrests 2 suspects

Belarus KGB claims having averted a terrorist attack on the Russian consulate in Grodno, a Belarusian city near the Polish and Lithuanian borders.

The attack, the Belarusian authorities allege, was planned by the Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate and its operative Vyacheslav Rozum, who had, it is claimed, recruited at least two people to carry out the plan.

The state security service has arrested the Russian national Alexey Kulikov and the Belarusian citizen Vadim Patsenko as the two suspects.

According to the Belarusian ONT TV channel’s Telegram post citing a source in the KGB, the foiled terrorist operation was going to target the Russian consulate, as well as petroleum infrastructure and military objects in the area.

Earlier this month, the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that a Ukrainian terrorist and his “accomplices” (more than 20 people all in all) had been detained after an attack on the Machulishchy airbase outside of Minsk.