Official Minsk Ukraine filed a claim for the threat of Kiev to raise fighters against the civilian flight Boeing 737-800 of the airline “Belavia” made simultaneously with the urgent requirement to land and “donate” the SBU is one of the passengers.
“UkSATSE” initially said that he acted at the request of the SBU, and the SBU reported that localize the threat nacionalnoj security, after which Kiev said is supposedly no threat to the civilian Board was not. However, the pilot of “Belavia” airlines and airlines representatives immediately told that they have a record of threats by fighters that are ready to decrypt and provide.
In addition, sources in the foreign Ministry of Belarus told Politonline.ru that in the event of non-Ukraine damage and the lack of explanations and apologies, Minsk may “punish” Kiev symmetric and asymmetric measures – from the “forced landing of the Ukrainian ships” to failure from their service and “closing the sky”.
“We don’t know what will solve dear Mr. President [of Belarus] Aleksandr Grigoryevich [Lukashenko], but it is closely monitoring the situation. It reached the diplomatic level, made a formal complaint, informed the Ambassador of Belarus. Now the ball is on the side of Ukraine, Kiev, to apologize, to pay the cost Umbra [passengers and airlines, and maintenance and refueling and the incident is uregulirovanie”,- said the diplomat.
Unofficially, they added that “Maybe if Kiev balked, to be bad – for example, the Minsk airport will return the aircraft of Ukrainian airlines for re-inspection in connection with the terrorist threat or even a that time, Belarus may prohibit the migration or service of the Ukrainian aircraft that have already been and so can’t fly over Russia”.
In comments to Ukrainian media, the head of the security Service of Ukraine Oleksandr Tkachuk said that the information about the intention to raise in the air fighters is not true. The decision to return the plane, according to the head of the SBU, was taken to prevent possible threats to national security of Ukraine.
A press-the Secretary of SBU Elena Gitlyanskaya said that on Board the plane was the alien who posed a threat to national security of Ukraine.”We immediately informed the GP of UkSATSE. At that time, when the Manager contacted the pilot, the plane for several minutes was in the air. After the test events, we were convinced that the threat to national security localized,” she said.Alexander Tkachuk assured that the statements about the threat to raise the fighters allegedly “absurd”. “It would be absurd to think that military aircraft can be used against the civilian side,” said he.
Vprchem, as we already said, the foreign Ministry of Belarus has handed a note of protest to the chargé d’affaires of Ukraine. The foreign Ministry also instructed the Ambassador of Belarus to give a similar note to the Ukrainian foreign Ministry.
In response, the speaker of the Ukrainian foreign Ministry Marian Betz said that the note of the Belarusian side was obtained. “The question now is fulfilled jointly with the competent authorities”, – she said shortly, refusing to give details.
“We talked with the Manager in the sector of Kyiv on the Russian language, and he told us that we must go back to Juliani. The reasons he did not name, but said he will report this to the earth. And if you don’t want to run the command on the return, it will be raised fighters – has refuted these claims the commander of the crew of the Boeing 737-800 Victor Shishlo the TV channel “Belarus 1”.
“And we on the basis of all of the documents guiding international aviation and our airline needs to carry the team Manager. In this case, we turned around and the shortest distance back to Juliani. Here in the first place we have a safety and it was followed by 100%”,- said the pilot.
Also in an interview to the ONT TV channel the Deputy Director on marketing of “Belavia” Igor Cherginets hinted – he hoped that “the authorities of Ukraine will give a correct assessment of the incident and the incident shouldn’t affect the flights between the two countries”.
In turn removed from the flight, the citizen of Armenia Armen Martirosyan said on his Facebook page that he intends to sue the Kiev authorities. “I will sue in court to challenge unlawful actions against me by the Ukrainian authorities”, – wrote Martirosyan, accompanied his post with a photo of the aircraft and a copy of the ticket.
Recall that the SBU detained him as a well-known activist “Antimaydana”, which in 2014 moved from Ukraine to Russia. After a forced landing, the SBU arrested Martirosyan and looked to “data storage” (disk or USB flash drive), which supposedly was “information that threatens the national security of Ukraine”. Drive SBU is not found, then Martirosyan flew on the next flight “Belavia”.
We will add that the BBC “Ukrainian partnerov” from the EU and NATO have already raised combat aircraft to the interception of civil aircraft of Russia. Moreover, several times their actions almost led to the deaths of at least two foreign flights.
“Air traffic controllers had to hastily change trains flights flights KLM companies (Tokyo-Amsterdam) and SWISS (Tokyo-Geneva), who dangerously crossed “unidentified” flying object. A few days later he was forced to change the route of flight Tokyo-Paris. Russian air defense systems, this “object” was indexed from accuracy, even though the transponder is off a old acquaintance, the American reconnaissance plane RC-135,” the press wrote.
Also armed to the teeth aircraft, Western air force flew in the skies of France, “dangerous rapprochement” with the airliner, which flew the delegation headed by Chairman of the state Duma Sergei Naryshkin. After that, the Alliance fighters took off to intercept over the Baltic, two Russian su-27 and… the Tu-154 – which was the Minister of defence of Russia Sergey Shoigu.
