Self-proclaimed Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko is insisting that Minsk had nothing to do with Russian drones that violated Polish and Lithuanian airspace.
Supply: BelTA, a Belarusian state-owned information outlet, as reported by European Pravda
Particulars: Lukashenko claimed that Belarus had no involvement in incidents during which Russian Shahed-type loitering munitions entered the airspace of Poland and Lithuania, including that Belarus’ neighbours had been overreacting.
"We’ve nothing to do with all the things that occurs to fly into Poland and Lithuania right now. And if we wailed as exhausting as they do after each time drones fly into Belarus from Ukraine, Russia, through Poland, Lithuania… We’ve by no means completed it. We calmly reply through acceptable communication channels," he mentioned.
Lukashenko didn’t specify when in the middle of the full-scale struggle the circumstances he referred to of "Ukrainian UAVs coming into Belarus through Poland or Lithuania" had occurred; there have been no stories of this occurring. Nonetheless, circumstances have been reported of Russian Shahed drones veering off track and ending up in Belarus as a result of Ukrainian countermeasures.
Background: Final week, Russian Shahed-type drones entered Polish airspace in giant numbers for the primary time and had been shot down, additionally for the primary time. One other Russian UAV remained in Romanian airspace for nearly an hour, monitored by fighter jets.
The incidents occurred in opposition to the backdrop of the Russo-Belarusian Zapad-2025 (West-2025) army workouts. Belarus has claimed that it gave its neighbours advance warning of the strategy of Russian drones to the border; Poland has confirmed this.
These occasions adopted a sequence of remoted incidents during which stray drones have entered the airspace of Moldova, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Within the case of Estonia, it was recommended that the UAV might have been Ukrainian.
Belarus has additionally reported that its forces practised deploying Russia’s Oreshnik missile system through the Zapad-2025 workouts.
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