From the leak of secret US documents, it became known that agents of the Security Service were behind the attack on the Russian AWACS aircraft at the Belarusian airfield Machulishche.
Source: The Economist
Literally: “On February 26, SBU officers came to a startling conclusion. Their own agents in Belarus ignored the order and attacked a Russian reconnaissance aircraft (A-50U – ed.) earlier in the day.”
Details: It is reported that the Americans learned about the actions of Ukrainian agents through wiretapping.
The intelligence snippets were contained on a highly classified slide about the war in Ukraine released by the US Joint Staff on March 1.
What came before:
- On February 26, it became known that explosions were heard at the Machulishche military airfield in Belarus in the morning. Then there was information that the Russian military aircraft A-50 was damaged.
- A representative of the Bypol initiative, Alexander Azarov, said that Belarusian partisans were behind this. According to him, the participants in the alleged sabotage in Machulishchi left Belarus and are now safe.
- After the explosion, the pool of the self-proclaimed president of Belarus claimed that everything was in order with the A-50 aircraft and allegedly published “fresh videos”, however, the monitoring group “Belarusian Gayun” reported that the Russian aircraft had flown to Taganrog for repairs.
although the monitoring group “Belarusian Gayun” reported that the Russian plane flew to Taganrog for repairs. - Andrey Yusov, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate, said that Russia is now unable to produce A-50 radar aircraft, one of which was probably damaged at the Belarusian airport in Machulishchi.
- On March 7, the self-proclaimed President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that an alleged “terrorist of the Ukrainian special services” and his henchmen who were “involved in an attempt to sabotage an A-50 aircraft at the Machulishchi airfield” were detained in Belarus.
