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Minsk claims that on January 24 of this year, a certain UAV, which was allegedly launched from the territory of Ukraine, crossed the Belarusian border, which was established after analyzing the on-board equipment of the downed drone.
In connection with the incident, Ukrainian Ambassador to Belarus Igor Kizim was summoned to the ministry, who was informed that such unfriendly steps by the Ukrainian side provoke an escalation of the situation in the region.
Ukraine’s reaction
In turn, the speaker of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Oleg Nikolenko called the statement of the Belarusian department “another provocation of the authorities in Belarus.”
“The mythical “tons of weapons” were replaced by “drones”. Ukraine did not use UAVs. We urge Minsk not to play along with the destabilization actions of Russia . Calmness on the border of Belarus and Ukraine is in the interests of the entire region,” Nikolenko wrote on Twitter.
Version of the Belarusian journalist
Meanwhile, Belarusian journalist Ksenia Lebedeva on Telegram published a post in which she reported that a “spy drone” was launched on January 24 at 10:58 in the area with. Food of the Volyn region, which is 1.7 km from the Ukrainian-Belarusian border. He allegedly crossed the border and, having flown 40 km into the depths, headed for the Brestsky training ground to observe the joint exercises of the troops of Belarus and the Russian Federation.
The journalist supplemented the publication with a diagram of the UAV flight route.
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Earlier it was reported that according to satellite images, Russia increases the amount of military equipment in the occupied Crimea, Belarus and in the regions bordering Ukraine. In particular, the location of the Iskander-M operational-tactical missile systems is noticeable.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko during his speech to the Parliament stated that there is a threat of a new world war , which the planet will not survive if the nuclear powers fail to agree. According to him, the level of aggression between the countries has reached a critical point.
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