Ukraine claims Russian fighter jets bombed a settlement in Belarus from Ukrainian airspace

LAST UPDATE: 17:51

The Ukrainian Air Force announced today that Russian fighters had bombed the village of Kopani in Belarus near the border with Ukraine, after entering Ukrainian airspace in an attempt to involve Belarus in Russia’s war against Ukraine. according to the Ukrinform agency.

“These are provocations! The aim is to involve the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus in the war with Ukraine!”, Said the Command of the Air Force of Ukraine in an Internet post.

The Ukrainian Air Force said that at 14:30 local time (Greek time) the state border service received information that Russian planes had taken off from an airport in Belarus, crossed into Ukrainian airspace and then bombed the settlement of Kopani.

The Ukrainian military said two other Belarussian settlements were also targeted in the operation. “We declare officially: the Ukrainian army has not planned and does not plan to take any aggressive action against the Republic of Belarus,” the security service said in a statement.

An adviser to the Ukrainian president claimed today that Belarussian leader Alexander Lukashenko was in a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow when Russian warplanes bombed the so-called “attack” flag. villages of Belarus.

Moscow did not immediately comment on a statement from Ukraine’s border guards that several Belarusian villages near the border with Ukraine had been bombed by Russian warplanes to drag Belarus into Russia’s war against Ukraine.

“I believe that (the Belarusian military administration) will do everything it can to avoid this scenario,” Presidential Adviser Oleksay Arestovich said in a televised interview.