Minsk – Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko spoke for the first time today about drones, which, according to observers, have repeatedly violated the airspace of the former Soviet republic since the outbreak of Russia’s war against Ukraine. According to him, the earth will shoot them down. The Ukrainian command regularly reports that some Russian drones flew into Belarusian territory during night raids.
“There have been several such cases, from Russia and from Ukraine. We shoot down many of them. We don’t look at whether they are Russian or Ukrainian,” Lukashenko said during a meeting with residents, according to the state agency Belta.
Russia and Ukraine have bought millions of drones, “but they don’t know how to control them yet,” Lukashenko said, according to BBC News. He admitted that drones can lose their orientation because they are disrupted by means of electronic warfare.
“We criticized the Ukrainians so harshly that on the channel through which we communicate with each other, they asked why we criticize them and not Russia when (drones) arrive from Russia,” Lukashenko said, adding that he adopted a “Solomonian solution”: not to criticize Russia either, nor Ukraine for drones. According to him, everything should be solved at an expert level.
The Belarusian leader also mentioned reports that drones had appeared in Belarusian airspace while he himself was flying in a helicopter. “A dirty little trick, a provocation,” he said, adding that it was a problem for the Ukrainian secret service SBU, stressing that shooting down a helicopter carrying the head of state would mean “the outbreak of a war that Ukrainians don’t need.”
Belarus is adjacent to both warring parties, so it considers its main task “not to allow Belarus to be dragged into this fight, into this war”. At the same time, Lukashenko threatened that if any incident were to occur, Minsk would have something to answer for.
Lukashenko provided his Russian ally for aggression against Ukraine his country as a staging ground for the February 2022 invasion, as well as air bases. However, the Belarusian armed forces have not yet been directly involved in the war.
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Source: www.ceskenoviny.cz
