Russian terrorists have staged a blatant provocation to directly drag Belarus into the war with Ukraine. Russian planes flew into Ukraine, turned around and fired on the village of Kopani in Belarus.
This was reported in the Command of the Air Force of Ukraine’s Armed Forces.
“Today at 2.30 PM, the State Border Service of Ukraine received information that Russian planes entered the territory of Ukraine, and turned over Ukrainian settlements of Horodyshche and Tumen’, after which they inflicted a fire damage on the settlement of Kopani (Belarus). Currently, the 9th Border Detachment is watching the occupation of this settlement by the enemy,” the statement reads.
There is also information about the shelling of Bukhlychi and Verkhnii Terebezhov (Republic of Belarus).
The Command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated that this is a provocation aimed at drawing the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus into the war with Ukraine.
UPDATE:
State Border Guard Service of Ukraine: “The enemy attacked Belarusian territory on the border with Ukraine.
Assault aircraft SU, with a flight into Ukraine from Belarus, carried out the bombing of Ukrainian territory and then inflicted air strikes on the territory of Belarus.
The arrival of 2 planes from the neighboring state was recorded by border guards serving at the “Dubrovytsia” branch in the Rivne region.
Such an attack and actions of the enemy on the settlements of Belarus are a deliberate provocation to involve the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus in the war with Ukraine”.
