Belarus Accused Ukraine of Attempting to Destroy Border Infrastructure

Belarus has accused Ukraine of alleged numerous attempts to launch drone attacks.

Alexander Volfovich, State Secretary of the Belarusian Security Council, stated this in Moscow during a meeting of the Committee of Secretaries of the CSTO Security Councils.

According to Volfovich, Belarusian air defense forces allegedly detect Ukrainian combat drones crossing the border daily, BELTA reports.

“In some cases, these are not random attacks, but attempts to strike elements of border infrastructure, disguised as supposedly accidental incursions,” he stated.

The Belarusian official claims that in the past week alone, “116 Ukrainian UAVs” were allegedly detected in the country’s airspace. According to him, air defense forces on duty took countermeasures against the drones “59 times.”

In addition, Volfovich accused Ukraine of mining border areas and actively conducting reconnaissance of Belarusian territory.

Response from the State Border Guard Service

State Border Guard Service spokesperson Andriy Demchenko stated in an interview with Ukrinform that Belarus’s accusations against Ukraine regarding alleged attacks by Ukrainian drones are yet another attempt to shift responsibility onto Kyiv.

“This is yet another attempt by Belarus to accuse Ukraine of something and shift the blame onto us. At the same time, it is worth noting once again that there are no threats to Ukraine from Belarus. We’ve been through this before, and we remember it,” the spokesperson said.

He emphasized that the statement by Alexander Volfovich, Secretary of the Belarusian Security Council:

“Had many absurd claims about the situation in Ukraine, and about how every day they use air defense systems to detect combat UAVs regularly crossing the border from our country. In the last week alone, they counted 116. My question is: how long did they have to hold back to remain silent about such ‘provocations by Ukrainians’? And besides, their air defense systems can apparently only detect Ukrainian assets, because for some reason they don’t detect what flies into Ukraine from Belarus.”

Tsikhanouskaya in Ukraine

A day before this statement, Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya arrived in Kyiv.

In a comment to Radio Free Europe, she stressed that a victory by the Ukrainian Armed Forces could open a “window of opportunity” for Belarus, and also spoke out against easing European sanctions against Alexander Lukashenko’s regime.

“From a political standpoint, I am traveling to Ukraine to ask how we, as Belarusians and as a society, can help Ukraine. We all understand that the outcome of the war will greatly influence the situation in Belarus. Despite our very limited capabilities, we still want to contribute in some way to the victory,” Tsikhanouskaya stated.

During his meeting with Tsikhanouskaya, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also stated that Ukraine supports the Belarusian people’s desire to free themselves from Russian influence.

“Russia is now trying to drag Belarus even further into this war against Ukraine. And we appreciate every show of support from Belarusians for a free Ukraine, and we know that the day will come when our countries will once again have good-neighborly relations based on the real independence of both Ukraine and Belarus from Moscow,” Zelensky said.

Recently, the Security Service of Ukraine and the Armed Forces launched large-scale enhanced security measures in the northern regions of the country bordering Russia and Belarus.