Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about the reaction that his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko showed in response to Ryanair flight crisis. As the President of Belarus explained to me, they did not plan any operations like that. They were informed that this person was on board (the founder and former editor-in-chief of NEXTA Telegram channel Roman Protasevich ed.) after he was already on the territory of Belarus and his photos appeared on the Internet, said Putin, adding that he did not want to go into details about the landing of the Irish airplane.
Vladimir Putin also assured that Russian special services had nothing to do with the incident in Minsk.