With flags of Russia-backed ‘republics’: Putin motorheads set to go ‘to Berlin’ through Belarus

It is the fourth time the notorious biker club Night Wolves will made an attempt to cross the Belarus-EU border in Brest. Earlier, they were repeatedly barred by the Polish authorities.

The Wolves are vocal supporters of the intervention in Ukraine and co-organisers of Antimaidan in Russia.

The group is set to get to Berlin on May 9, Russia’s Victory Day, and ‘pay tribute to the soldiers who won a victory over Nazi Germany’. The start of this year’s race is scheduled for April, 28.

By May 1, the Wolves plan to get to Brest with stops at the Stalin Line and Pinsk. From there, they intend to get to the territory of Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Germany.

In a recent interview with the Russian media, its leader Alexander Zaldostanov, a close friend of Vladimir Putin, said his bikers would go through Belarus to the west carrying the flag of Victory as well as those of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republic.

During his last stay in our country, Zaldostanov said that ‘Belarus is Russia’.

Being denied entry to Poland on May 1, 2016, they returned to Belarus and shared their impressions with journalists. When Belsat TV contributor Ales Lyauchuk said the USSR was Hitler’s ally at the beginning of the Second World War and referred to the Nazi-Soviet Pact signed in August 1939, Alexander Zaldostanov could not come up with any sensible answer and pushed Mr Lyauchuk away saying ‘Bugger off!’.

The Night Wolves were not allowed to pass through Poland in 2015 as well. According to the Polish side, the participants threatened the security of the European Union. The U.S. and Canada imposed sanctions on several representatives of the organisation.

АС, belsat.eu