RIA Novosti circulated a Belarusian fake about a pregnant migrant, abandoned unconscious by Lithuanian border guards

RIA Novosti published a note under the heading “In Lithuania, a pregnant foreign woman was thrown onto the border line, Minsk said.” In it it says:

“Lithuanian border guards threw a pregnant foreign woman unconscious on the border line with Belarus, in Minsk they regarded the incident as deliberate leaving a person in danger without the possibility of receiving the necessary medical care, the press service of the Belarusian State Border Committee (GPK) said on Tuesday.

“The Lithuanians threw the pregnant foreign woman unconscious on the border line,” reads a statement on the CCP’s Telegram channel.

According to him, on Tuesday afternoon, ten illegal immigrants, including three children, were recorded at the Polesie post section of the Smorgon border group, all of them were forcibly expelled by the Lithuanian side to the border line with Belarus. “A foreigner from this group recorded on video an egregious fact of actions of representatives of the Lithuanian border guard, contrary to all laws and human values. The footage clearly shows how the Lithuanian border guards move an unconscious pregnant woman from the Lithuanian side to the border line and leave her there, ”the message says.

The Belarusian ministry stressed that “this is nothing more than deliberate leaving a person in danger without the possibility of receiving the necessary medical care”.

The article is illustrated with a 15-second video clip, where the border guards drag a woman, whose face is hidden under a checkered handkerchief, and put her on the grass. The angle does not allow us to understand whether she looks like a pregnant woman.

On the same day, the Lithuanian Border Guard Service published on his YouTube channel, a video continuation of this scene, providing it with an ironic comment:

“This is how lies are created. The Belarusian State Border Committee today, on Tuesday, announces the arrest of a group of migrants who have been subjected to “actions contrary to human values,” as if the Lithuanian border guards were carrying an unconscious pregnant woman in their arms.

However, our neighbors seem to have forgotten that we record events at the border using not only smart devices, but also stationary cameras.

So, a woman who was pretending to faint suddenly gets up, dresses and goes to Belarus. By the way, the event was recorded last Monday, and not today, as our colleagues who create hoaxes claim. “

The video from the Lithuanian surveillance camera is dated August 2. The woman really looks quite cheerful for a woman who has just woken up from a fainting spell.