Lukashenka threatened to block the Yamal gas pipeline - Europe

President of Belarus ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO said he was ready to respond harshly to possible sanctions from the EU countries and Poland, in particular to the threat of a complete closure of the border, BelTA informs.

“We are warming up Europe, they are still threatening us that they will close the border. What if we shut off natural gas there? Therefore, I would recommend the leadership of Poland, Lithuanians and other headless people to think before speaking. But that's their business. Close - let them close. But the Foreign Ministry must warn everyone in Europe: if only they impose additional sanctions on us, "indigestible" and "unacceptable" for us, we must respond. How to answer, we agreed with you six months ago,” Lukashenka said.

He turned to Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko with an instruction: “We don't have to forgive them anything. Poland scares us that it will close the border. Please close: fewer fugitives will move there. This is not the question. I just listened to these bastards who are generally headless. And if we close transit through Belarus? It will not pass through Ukraine: the Russian border is closed there. There are no roads through the Baltics. If we close for the Poles and, for example, for the Germans, what will happen then? In defending our sovereignty and independence, we must not stop at nothing,” the President of Belarus warned.

RBC sent inquiries to the press service of Gazprom, the Russian Foreign Ministry and Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov.