Belarus claims to have successfully prevented attempted drone strikes from Lithuania targeting Minsk, but Lithuania denied the claim calling it “nonsense,” Associated Press reports.
Ivan Tertel, head of Belarusian KGB, alleged that radicals in Lithuania and Poland were manufacturing drones for attacks on Belarusian territory. However, these claims were swiftly denied by Lithuania, with military spokesman Gintautas Ciunis labeling them as “nonsense.” Opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, currently in exile in Lithuania, dismissed Tertel’s claims, stating that no one aside from the Belarusian leadership had heard of a drone attack on Minsk.
The Lithuanian crisis management center issued a statement suggesting that Tertel’s comments were likely intended for domestic consumption in Belarus and amounted to a hostile provocation against Lithuania.
The Belarusian Assembly unanimously approved a new national security framework and military doctrine proposed by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, aiming to regulate the use of Russian nuclear weapons.
