Belarusian aircraft violates Lithuania's airspace

A Belarusian military jet violated the airspace of Lithuania. Belarus received a protest note over the incident on Thursday.

According to the press service of the Lithuanian MFA, the MIG-29 fighter jet from Belarus flew into the airspace of Lithuania near Pogarenda village in Varėna district on i7 April at 1.05 p.m.

“The Belarusian military jet was flying over the Lithuanian airspace for about two minutes,” the Information and Public Relations Department of the Lithuanian MFA reports.

The note summoned to the Belarusian Embassy in Lithuania on Thursday demands to “provide all the available information about the violation of the Lithuanian airspace and to take steps to prevent similar incidents in the future,” the ministry informs.

It should be reminded that a training session for commanders of air force (air defence, air force troops) of the armed forces of the CIS states was carried out on April 17 as part of the session of the Air Defence Coordination Commission at the CIS Defence Ministers Council. Air force and air defence units carried out landing exercises on an airfield-capable section of a motorway, For these proposes, the M1 highway was closed for traffic for a few hours. Four jets (two Su-25 and two MIG-29) and two MI-24 helicopters landed on the motorway in the Brest region.

A Belarusian delegation led by the country's PM Mikhail Miasnikovich began a visit to Lithuania yesterday.