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Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, facing the biggest domestic challenge to his 26-year rule, deployed the military to the country’s borders with the European Union as he complained of unspecified security threats.
“Today, we have problems not only inside but outside” the country, Lukashenko told his security council Tuesday, the state-owned Belta news service reported. “We reacted to this and deployed combat units of our army on the western borders of our frontier and have brought them to full combat readiness.”