President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has said that any plane will be grounded if his homeland is in danger. He made such a statement in an interview with CNN, an excerpt from which was shown by the TV channel “Belarus 1”.
However, Lukashenko assured that he guarantees the safety of foreign planes flying over his homeland.
“If you are afraid to fly over our territory, I can personally guarantee to you, your company and your country and any other country the complete safety of flights over Belarus, as it always has been. But if I and the law enforcement agencies see a threat to the Belarusian state ,, we will land every plane here “Whether he’s from Britain or the United States,” Lukashenko warned.
On May 23, at the request of the Belarusian authorities, a plane of the Irish airline
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The President of Belarus has complained of pressure from the West
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traveling from Athens to Vilnius, made an emergency landing in Minsk. Nexta Telegram founder Roman Protasevic, who was on board the plane, was detained by law enforcement. His girlfriend, the Russian Sofia Sapega was also detained. She was then arrested in Belarus for two months. The incident caused an international scandal.
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Lukashenko later determined the incident with the plane of the Irish airline Ryanair as a planned provocation.
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