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Several dozen militants have been detained on suspicion of plotting armed acts of provocation, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said.

“We have already detained several dozen people practicing with weapons in camps. By the way, one of those camps was situated in the area of Bobruisk and Osipovichi. The other camps were located in Ukraine [and], it seems to me, in Lithuania or Poland – I won’t insist on this, but somewhere there. The money was coming here via Poland and Lithuania. Just a few hours ago, we apprehended a couple of dozens of militants plotting an armed provocation,” the BelTA state-run news agency quoted Lukashenko as saying during a working trip to the Mogilyov region.