“Thirty silver coins are the reward for treason,” says a Ukrainian lieutenant colonel as he attempts to deliver a bag for cameras to the Belarusian ambassador to Ukraine, Igor Sokol, to take to the head of the Border Control Committee of Belarus, Anatoly Lappo . Video of the provocation, posted on the profile of the head of Ukraine’s customs officials Sergei Deineko, fueled the Ukrainian propaganda machine after Kyiv accused Minsk of allowing the Russian army to cross the Belarusian border, thereby preventing Moscow troops from invading the north enabled Ukraine. «The Russians are committing open and bloody aggression against Ukraine from the territory of Belarus says the soldier in the video Deinko ordered to deliver this “salute” to his chairman of the border committee, General Lappo. That is an order”. Belarusian ambassador Sokol scornfully refused the bag of coins and left saying: “An order for you, not for me.” The 30 silver coins are a clear reference to the episode narrated in the Gospel in which Judas Iscariot gets paid 30 denarii by the Roman army to help him arrest Jesus Kyiv accuses Minsk of having supported the Russians in the invasion that began on February 24th Provocation added a warning on his Facebook page: “Be careful. Victory will be for Ukraine!!”.
