Belarus has reported alleged attempts at drone attacks from Ukraine
Belarus has reported alleged numerous attempts to target border infrastructure using drones from Ukraine. This was stated by Alexander Volfovich, State Secretary of the Belarusian Security Council, during a meeting of the CSTO Committee of Security Council Secretaries in Moscow.
According to Volfovich, citing Belarusian media, Belarusian air defense forces allegedly detect Ukrainian combat drones crossing the border on a daily basis.
“In some cases, these are not accidental attacks, but attempts to strike elements of border infrastructure under the guise of supposedly accidental incursions,” he stated.
The Belarusian official claims that in the past week alone, “116 Ukrainian UAVs” were allegedly detected in the country’s airspace. According to him, air defense forces on duty took countermeasures against the drones “59 times.”
In addition, Volfovich accused Ukraine of mining border areas and conducting active reconnaissance of Belarusian territory.
Response from the State Border Guard Service
State Border Service spokesperson Andriy Demchenko stated in an interview with Ukrinform that Belarus’s accusations against Ukraine regarding alleged attacks by Ukrainian drones are yet another attempt to shift responsibility onto Kyiv.
“This is yet another attempt by Belarus to accuse Ukraine of something and shift the blame onto us. At the same time, we must once again note that there are no threats to Ukraine from Belarus. We’ve been through this before, and we remember,” the spokesperson said.
He emphasized that in a statement by Alexander Volfovich, Secretary of the Belarusian Security Council:
“There were a lot of absurd statements about the situation in Ukraine, and about how every day they use air defense systems to detect combat drones regularly crossing the border from our country. In the last week alone, they counted 116. My question is: how long did they have to hold back to keep quiet about such ‘provocations by Ukrainians’? And besides, their air defense systems can apparently only detect Ukrainian assets, because for some reason they don’t detect what flies into Ukraine from Belarus.”
Tikhanovskaya in Ukraine
A day before this statement, Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya arrived in Kyiv.
In a comment to Radio Free Europe, she emphasized that a victory by the Ukrainian Armed Forces could open a “window of opportunity” for Belarus, and also spoke out against easing European sanctions against Alexander Lukashenko’s regime.
Belarus reported 116 attempted attacks from Ukraine over the course of a week.
Earlier, on March 26, the U.S. lifted sanctions against the Belarusian Ministry of Finance, the Development Bank, and the company “Belaruskali,” as well as a number of affiliated entities.
Recall that Lukashenkoannounced a “major deal” with the U.S. at Trump’s suggestion.
