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Belarus president calls backlash against plane incident a ‘planned provocation’

Alexander Lukashenko has made his first public remarks defending his grounding of a Ryanair flight last week, accusing the west of launching a “hybrid modern war” against Minsk and calling the backlash over the incident a “planned provocation”.

Addressing a session of parliament, Lukashenko also appeared to suggest the plane could have been shot down because it was flying over a nuclear power plant when it was diverted by the Belarusian government, which appeared to have concocted a bomb threat and scrambled a Mig-29 to ensure the plane landed.

European countries began to block flights from Minsk on Wednesday following a decision by the European Commission to enact restrictions on the Belarusian national carrier Belavia.

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