Lukashenko claims dozen aerial targets shot down over Belarus

Self-proclaimed Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has claimed that "several targets" from Ukraine were shot down over Belarus.

Source: Alexander Lukashenko's press service

Quote from Lukashenko: "The Belarusian Air Force and Air Defence Forces were put on high alert yesterday [9 August - ed.] at 18:10. We call it readiness condition 1.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine violated all rules of conducting war and violated the airspace of the Republic of Belarus. [Targets were - ed.] very close to us in the Kastsyukovichy district in the eastern direction. Therefore, air defence forces were on full combat alert to intercept the targets. There were about a dozen of them."

Details: Lukashenko said that on Friday at 19:04, at an altitude of 1.5 kilometres, the air defence forces "destroyed several targets" over the territory of Belarus.

Quote from Lukashenko: "Overnight and in the  morning, we have been searching for the wreckage of what was destroyed. We suspect that these are attack drones. They violated the airspace of Belarus and flew from Ukraine.

We destroyed the targets over the territory of Belarus. The rest were destroyed (we have a single air defence system with Russia) by the Russian Federation."

Background: The Russian Ministry of Defence stated that their air defence had allegedly destroyed 32 aircraft-type drones overnight.

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