MINSK, 24 August (BelTA) – The Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs handed a note of protest over the incident at the border to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Lithuania to Belarus Andrius Pulokas on 24 August, the ministry's press service told BelTA.
The source noted: “According to the available data, an aerial object was launched from the Lithuanian territory on 23 August 2020. The object violated the state border of Belarus and went 3km inside the country's territory.”
The Belarusian side views this fact as a planned provocation and expects Vilnius to investigate the incident in an orderly fashion and take measures to prevent such an event from happening again in the future.