The head of the top security agency in Belarus has claimed that the country has prevented attempted drone strikes from Lithuania that targeted the capital, Minsk, and surrounding areas. Lithuania’s
Top-ranking Belarusian security official Ivan Tertel said Thursday that the country had stopped attempted drone strikes by Lithuania, which has denied the claim's validity.
The authoritarian leader of Belarus on Tuesday accused the West of trying to foment protests during parliamentary and local elections this month in order to undermine his rule, while the country's opposition leader-in-exile denounced the vote as a “cynical farce” and called for its boycott. President Alexander Lukashenko, who has…