The illegally elected President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko was outraged that the planes of the state company Belavia banned flights to countries European Union… He complained about this to Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
During a meeting with the head of state on May 28, Lukashenko said that the company allegedly had nothing to do with the forced landing of the Ryanair plane and the detention of journalist Roman Protasevich. Fragment of a conversation in Telegram published by the Russian propaganda TV channel RT (to watch the video, scroll the page to the end).
“This is the case with the airplanes, to which Belavia has nothing to do. There were no Belavia airplanes there… they were soaked to the fullest. What was the labor collective punished for? Here is their face,” Lukashenka said.
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He also promised to show Putin “some documents” about the Ryanair incident.
“You will understand what is happening there. There is an attempt to swing the situation up to the level of August last year,” the unrecognized president noted.
In turn, Putin recalled the forced landing of the plane with the President of Bolivia. In 2013, the plane carrying Evo Morales was landed in Vienna and searched for suspicions that it was also carrying former CIA officer Edward Snowden.
“The plane of the President of Bolivia was once planted. They took the president out of the plane … and nothing — silence,” the Russian president said.
Let us remind you that earlier a number of EU countries banned Belarusian aircraft from flying to their territory. Also, many European airlines were banned from flying over the territory of Belarus.
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As reported OBOZREVATELOn May 23, the Ryanair Athens-Vilnius plane was urgently landed at the Minsk-2 airport due to a message about mining, which was not confirmed. In the same time opposition blogger and journalist Roman Protasevich were detained and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega, who were on board.
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