Security forces conduct searches in Belarus following reports of attack on A-50 military aircraft

Security forces are conducting searches in Belarus amid reports of an attack on an A-50 military aircraft at the Machulishchy airbase.

Source: Viasna Human Rights Centre on Telegram

Details: Human rights activists reported that all those who were "tried or punished under political administrative articles from 2020 to 2023" are being searched. The searches are being carried out by Belarusian State Security Committee (KGB) employees.

According to preliminary reports by human rights defenders, at least 10 people are known to have been detained, and after searches, they were sent to a KGB detention centre.

Background: 

• Explosions occurred at the Machulishchy airbase in Belarus during the morning of 26 February. Later, information emerged that a Russian A-50 military aircraft had been damaged.
• Alexander Azarov, Head of the BYPOL initiative, reported that Belarusian partisans were involved in sabotage at the Machulishchy airbase in Belarus. According to Azarov, the participants of the alleged sabotage in Machulishchy had left Belarus and are now safe.
• Later, media published satellite photos of the plane before and after the incident.
• The propaganda team surrounding the self-proclaimed president of Belarus continues to claim that everything is fine with the A-50 military aircraft and it even escorted Alexander Lukashenko’s aircraft, although the military monitoring media outlet Belaruski Hajun reported that the Russian aircraft flew to Taganrog in Russia for repairs.

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