President Alexander #Lukashenko said Thursday that #Belarus had beaten back a foreign-led onslaught to overthrow his government, after months of protests against his decades-long rule. “The blitzkrieg did not succeed, we held on to our country,” Lukashenko said in a speech at the opening of the All-Belarusian People’s Assembly that brought together hundreds of loyal delegates in the capital Minsk. FRANCE 24’s Guillver Cragg tells us more.
Lukashenko says foreign ‘blitzkrieg’ on Belarus failed
