Did Z-propaganda Fabricate A "Ukrainian Armed Forces Attack" On A Belarusian Bus?
2- 4.07.2026, 14:30
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An outright lie.
“Flagstok” publishes confirmation that the statement by the Russian state media regarding yet another attack by “Ukrainian Armed Forces militants” on a Belarusian bus was a lie.
On the evening of July 2, the Belarusian state television channel aired a report showing the situation immediately after the drone attack.
The two frames shown allow us to reconstruct the events. The drone struck a group of three semi-trailer trucks parked in the lot.
The strike hit the middle DAF truck, located about 12 meters from the bus. The truck then caught fire, but the other trucks and the bus were moved away before the fire spread.
According to state media reports, the burned-out truck was registered in Belarus. There were no reports of injured truck drivers; they likely left their cabs.
The bus windows may have been shattered by the shock wave from the detonation of an explosive device (no traces of shrapnel were found in previously published photographs).
This is also corroborated by passengers’ accounts:
“I heard a loud bang, like an explosion. I thought maybe a tire had blown out.”
“The bus pulled up, people were standing nearby, and as soon as everyone got on the bus, the blast happened right away.”
Thus, it can be asserted that Russian media outlets and Telegram channels knowingly spread falsehoods by reporting a targeted strike on the front of the Belarusian bus while concealing the true nature of the events.
Moreover, in the first few hours, no photos of the damaged bus were published (it soon became clear why—there was no impact to the front of the bus), and then fake photos of the Belarusian bus appeared, likely created using artificial intelligence.
The fake photo shows a bus belonging to the fictional company Intercars, but in reality, the incident involved a bus from the “Stolitsa” transportation company.
The fact that there was no deliberate attack on the bus was also acknowledged by the Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus Alexander Volfovich, who stated that the bus was struck by shrapnel unintentionally. However, many Belarusian and Russian state media outlets omitted this part of his statement.
“The Belarusian bus was not specifically targeted, so to speak, for destruction. It was a bus moving by chance through the Bryansk region and a drone that happened to fall onto the road between two highways,” Volfovich told reporters.
Prior to this statement, following the first reports by Russian media outlets, Belarusian propaganda Telegram channels rushed to post angry messages directed at “Ukrainian Armed Forces militants.”
The lies spread by the Russian state media regarding the incident involving the “Minsk – Anapa” bus casts doubt on the information disseminated by Russian sources regarding the first incident—the attack on the bus carrying the soccer team from Rechitsa, suggests “Flagstok.”
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