President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, demanded monetary compensation from Western countries for the investigation of the incident with the landing of the Ryanair aircraft. This is reported by the publication “Sat. Belarus Today.”
According to politics, the requirements of the European Union on the conduct of the proceedings are not compatible with intent to introduce sanctions against the country. He stressed that Belarus suffered expenses due to the signal of the “mining” of the liner. “Ministry of Emergency Situations, Ministry of Health, Supres, Cynologicals, Antiterror and other services that were raised by my team. (…) We must pay for this,” said Lukashenko.
he added that Belarus is the “European Center”, and the unstable situation in it can lead to the “Regular World War.” “Previous, by the way, also started from here,” said the head of state.
Incident with an emergency landing in Minsk Aircraft of the Ryanair airline, which followed Athens to Vilnius, occurred on May 23 due to the report of Belarusian dispatchers about the bomb laid on board. During the decline, the liner was accompanied by the Fighter of the MiG-29 Air Force of Belarus. The explosive device was not discovered on board, instead the security forces detained on board the former Glavreda Opposition Telegram channel Nexta Roman Protasevich.
The opposition and a number of European countries found the actual act of state terrorism and demanded to release the detainee. In turn, the Belarusian side stated that information on mining came on behalf of the Palestinian movement Hamas.
Later, Hamas rejected his involvement in the occurrence and condemned Minsk for the involvement of the conflict between Palestine and Israel in the situation around Protasevich’s detention. “This is outrageous and demonstrates the archaic thinking [the Belarusian government], which does not understand that now we live in a century of free media,” the deputy head of the Palestinian Musk’s Palestinian movement of Musa Aubu Marzuk said.