DISINFO: Belarusian political analyst Feduta discussed how to kill Lukashenka on Zoom
SUMMARY
And these are the same Zenkovich and Feduta a little earlier, during their negotiations on Zoom. They say that Lukashenka should be killed like the president of Egypt during the parade.
Footage of Alexander Feduta:
“There was a successful transformation, not of the regime, but at least the rotation of the regime, in Egypt. I mean the case of Anvar Saddat. This, in my opinion, is the only scenario that can be implemented".
The liquidation on the day of victory on May 9 was seen as one of the main scenarios.
RESPONSE
On 17 April 2021, Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko claimed he and his sons were the target of a US-backed assassination plot but did not provide any evidence.
The interpretation of the Zoom conference, presented by the pro-Kremlin media as proof of a plot and assassination attempt, does not correspond to what was actually said.
In the dialogue shown in the report, Belarusian political analyst Alexander Feduta states: “There was a successful transformation, not of the regime, but at least the rotation of the regime, in Egypt. I mean the case of Anvar Saddat. This, in my opinion, is the only scenario that can be implemented".
The presenter's interpretation is the following: "They say that Lukashenka should be killed like the president of Egypt during the parade. The liquidation on the day of victory on May 9 was seen as one of the main scenarios. "
No evidence of such a plot is given. Feduta is speaking about the relatively successful transition of power in Egypt after the tragic murder of Anvar Saddat (president of Egypt in 1970-1981) by Islamic terrorists. Feduta does not mention anything (time or place etc.) having to do with an assassination attempt on Lukashenka.
One of the participants of the Zoom conference in question, Igor Makar, gave the background to Current Time TV:
"We discussed the whole situation in Belarus. At the meetings held approximately once every two or three weeks, the most important and most global issues were raised: how to defeat and generally destroy the dictatorial regime of Lukashenka. Talk about killing Lukashenka himself and his family, his children, as he says, has never happened. The data of the Zoom conferences and recordings, I am sure, are available in the State Security Committee (KGB of Belarus), and they do not prove it".
The pro-Kremlin report also shows footage of Feduta at a Moscow's restaurant when someone else proposes to Feduta: "The number one task is to eliminate the most important figure". Igor Makar called this filmed meeting a provocation by the KGB of Belarus. Anyway, there are no words by Feduta himself where he would propose to kill Lukashenka wherever and whenever.
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