Belarus claims Ukrainian S-300 missile crossed into its territory
This morning, a Ukrainian S-300 missile crossed into Belarus and fell on its territory.
There is no information about anyone being injured in the incident. According to the Belarusian news outlet Belta, law-enforcement authorities are considering two main possible scenarios that might have led to it:
- The missile might have crossed into Belarus on accident, similarly to what happened last November, when a missile struck a farm in the Polish village of Przewodów.
- The other possibility is that it might have been shot down by the Belarusian air defense systems.
Fact-checking wartime reports of military incidents takes time. This article may be corrected in the future.
On December 29, Russia conducted another missile strike on Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian military, 69 missiles had been launched; 54 of them were shot down.
Damage from the strikes was documented in Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, and Odesa and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. Three people have been injured, and two privately-owned buildings and a car damaged, in Kyiv.
The Przewodów missile incident
- Polish media reports two people dead in apparent Russian missile strikes, though Biden says rockets probably weren’t fired from Russia
- 'Likely an accident from Ukrainian air defenses' The latest on the missile strike that killed two in Poland
- Zelensky on the missile strike in Poland: ‘I have no doubt, it was not our missile’
- Peskov on Polish missile incident: ‘The prime cause of everything is NATO’ and the U.S.