Catherine McQueen/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Belarus fabricated a bomb scare aboard a Ryanair passenger plane last year to force it to land so it could arrest
Director of the Aviation Department of the Belarusian Transport and Communications Ministry Artyom Sikorsky called the material of the New York Times about the Ryanair aircraft landing in Minsk fake news.
Just under 100 Syrians left Belarus for Damascus on Wednesday, in what is believed to be the first repatriation flight since the migrant crisis at the Belarus-Poland border began