Polish helicopter pilots guarding the border with Belarus are authorized to fire if there are new incursions like the one that took place last Tuesday, when two Belarusian helicopters violated the Polish airspace.
The government of the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko He denied the incident and accused Poland of a false flag action to increase the presence of soldiers on the border.
However, the Polish government sent this Friday to belarus documents that prove that the incursion did take place.
In a note published today, the Polish Foreign Ministry reported that “the Polish embassy in Minsk provided the Belarusian Foreign Ministry with information conclusively confirming” the incursion of an Mi-8 helicopter and an Mi-24.
In the document he urges belarus to “urgently clarify the incident and cease their provocations at the border.”
The statement insists that “the information presented” today “contradicts the position of Belarus”, according to which there was no such incursion, and demands that minsk to “correct your official version on this matter.”
On Tuesday afternoon, after confirming that an invasion of its airspace had taken place, the Polish government summoned the representative of the Belarusian diplomacy in Warsaw to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to officially convey the protest against the incident.
The Polish Minister of Defence, Mariusz Blaszczakordered the detachment of several combat helicopters in that region a few days ago, and in a press conference in Warsaw warned yesterday that “the pilots will not hesitate to open fire if something serious happens.”
For his part, the Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawieckiassured yesterday, in a meeting with the Lithuanian president, Nauseda Gypsythat the intention of Belarus is “to try to destabilize the eastern flank of NATO.”
Morawiecki also warned about the settlement of a group of Wagner’s mercenaries near the Polish border with the possible objective, he said, of “carrying out actions of sabotage and provocations.”
On August 1, two military helicopters entered about three kilometers into Polish territory, in the Bialowieza border area (east), a situation that was initially denied and later confirmed by the Polish government because the aircraft “flew at a very low altitude and were not detected by radar,” according to the Polish Ministry of Defense.
