{"id":503897,"date":"2025-12-19T12:28:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=503897"},"modified":"2025-12-19T12:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:50:23","slug":"lukashenka-says-phones-of-his-inner-circle-are-under-u-s-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lukashenka-says-phones-of-his-inner-circle-are-under-u-s-control","title":{"rendered":"Lukashenka Says Phones of His Inner Circle Are \u201cUnder U.S. Control\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Phones used by people around Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> are \u201cunder U.S. control.\u201d He said he had been warned about this by Russian and Belarusian security services. Lukashenka shared the claim at the All-Belarusian People\u2019s Assembly. He said he sees a solution in developing domestic software and preserving wired communications, which he believes cannot be intercepted.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuite recently, for the second time this year, Russian counterintelligence personally warned me that the phones of people who are close to the president \u2014 well, their children as well, someone in the cafeteria, not in the cafeteria, people nearby, closer \u2014 are under the control of the United States of America. Well, that\u2019s natural. I could have guessed it myself, but once again they named surnames and phone numbers for me. And when I demanded from the State Security Committee and the Operational and Analytical Center what was going on, they added to this list as well.<\/i><\/p>\n

The interest is enormous. And everything we don\u2019t even talk about \u2014 here is the phone of Ihar Serheyenka, as a former security officer \u2014 and former ones don\u2019t exist, right \u2014 it lies nearby, and if this interests someone there, it hears everything that is happening. I think Kiryl Zaleski, I\u2019m not mistaken, I\u2019m saying this correctly, that this is so. I was warned about this, and I became convinced of it. Therefore, we need to create\u2026 We can buy any phone. Maybe we don\u2019t even need to spend money on that, but the software and the storage of all these conversations, let\u2019s say, should be located here,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n

Lukashenka then used the example of McDonald\u2019s to demonstrate how something foreign can be made Belarusian, once again repeating the story of how the American fast-food chain\u2019s restaurants were transformed into Mak.by.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd in this next five-year period we must make it so that people use this mobility, mobile communications, freely, without worrying that someone in Canada or America will read something and establish some kind of connection. Intelligence services are working,\u201d<\/i> Lukashenka ultimately returned to his main point.<\/p>\n

He also spoke in favor of preserving wired telephone communications.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have it in my residence here in Minsk, I can use it, and I am convinced that not a single American will read what I say over these wires,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, let this remain as well. Why cut down these poles, as was once suggested to me, and destroy these wires? Even where they broke somewhere, they should be calmly restored \u2014 what if they are needed? This is security. Therefore, there is no need to destroy what has worked for us for years. It requires almost no money. Well, it doesn\u2019t require big money. Let it be. God protects those who are cautious,\u201d<\/i> Lukashenka concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phones used by people around Alyaksandr Lukashenka are \u201cunder U.S. control.\u201d He said he had been warned about this by Russian and Belarusian security services. Lukashenka shared the claim at the All-Belarusian People\u2019s Assembly. He said he sees a solution in developing domestic software and preserving wired communications, which he believes cannot be intercepted. \u201cQuite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":503896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/69451fe7d9a96.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lukashenka Says Phones of His Inner Circle Are \u201cUnder U.S. Control\u201d"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}