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Belarus Says Ukraine Is Sending Drones Across the Border Daily, Kyiv Calls It a Kremlin-Backed Provocation
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Belarusian officials accused Ukraine of carrying out repeated drone incursions and attempting to strike border infrastructure, while Ukrainian authorities dismissed the claims as a provocation aligned with Russian interests.
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According to the Belarusian state news agency BELTA on May 26, Belarusian Security Council State Secretary Alexander Volfovich said Belarusian air defenses had recorded “regular” crossings of the Belarus-Ukraine border by what he described as Ukrainian combat drones.
“In some cases, these are not accidental attacks, but attempts to strike elements of border infrastructure under the guise of supposedly accidental incursions,” Volfovich said during a meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) security council secretaries in Moscow.
According to BELTA, Volfovich claimed Belarus detected 116 Ukrainian drones in its airspace over the past week and that Belarusian air defense forces responded to 59 incidents involving UAVs.
He also accused Ukraine of mining border areas and conducting reconnaissance activities near Belarusian territory.
Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service rejected the accusations. Speaking to Ukrinform, Border Guard spokesperson Andrii Demchenko described the statements as “another attempt by Belarus to accuse Ukraine of something and shift responsibility onto us.”
“It was full of absurd statements about the situation in Ukraine and about how every day they supposedly detect regular crossings of the border by combat UAVs from our state,” Demchenko said.
Commenting on the Belarusian claim of detecting 116 drones in one week, Demchenko added: “I have a question: how much restraint did they need to stay silent about such ‘Ukrainian provocations’? And apparently their air defense can only detect Ukrainian systems, because for some reason they do not detect what enters Ukraine from Belarus.”
Andrii Kovalenko, head of Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation, also criticized the Belarusian statements, saying Minsk was “lying about Ukrainian drones” and acting in Russia’s interests.
“Exactly this is what Russia demands from Belarus. It is worth recalling that Belarus provided its territory for the Russian invasion in 2022,” Kovalenko said.
The statements came one day after Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya visited Kyiv. Tsikhanouskaya said the outcome of Russia’s war against Ukraine would strongly affect Belarus and argued against easing European sanctions on the government of Alexander Lukashenko.
“We all understand that the results of the war will greatly influence the situation in Belarus,” Tsikhanouskaya said. During a meeting with Tsikhanouskaya, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia was attempting to draw Belarus deeper into the war against Ukraine.
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