{"id":193576,"date":"2026-06-26T23:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/193576\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T23:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T20:30:11","slug":"belarus-confirms-russias-announcement-that-minsk-has-requested-un-security-council-meeting-over-drone-attack","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/193576\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus confirms Russia\u2019s announcement that Minsk has requested UN Security Council meeting over drone attack\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>June 26,&nbsp;<em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong>&nbsp;The Belarusian foreign ministry has called for an \u201cimpartial international investigation\u201d into last week\u2019s deadly drone attack on a Belarusian tour bus after Russia took the initiative to announce that Minsk had requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in connection with the incident.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The news was broken by Russia\u2019s acting permanent representative to the United Nations, Anna Evstigneyeva, in the absence of any information on the matter on the foreign ministry\u2019s website or in the Belarusian state media.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Evstigneyeva described the attack as a \u201cdeliberate strike\u201d by Ukraine on a Belarusian civilian bus carrying children in Russia\u2019s Bryansk province.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement on Friday, the foreign ministry\u2019s spokesman Rus\u0142an Varanko\u016d says that Belarus had appealed to Columbia as the holder of the UN Security Council\u2019s rotating presidency to call an emergency meeting in connection with the \u201cterrorist attack.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given that Belarus is not a member of the Security Council, the appeal has been supported by its permanent member Russia, Varanko\u016d says, adding that the meeting will take place soon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Belarus will demand an &#8220;immediate, objective, and impartial international investigation,&#8221; Varanko\u016d says, stressing that \u201csuch crimes must not be hushed up and the perpetrators must not escape accountability.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200bDuring the meeting, Varanko\u016d says, Belarus will also complain to the Security Council about \u201crecent statements by the Ukrainian leadership, which openly declare readiness to launch strikes on the Belarusian territory, including critical infrastructure facilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200b&#8221;Such rhetoric not only flagrantly violates the fundamental principles of international law but also poses a direct threat to regional and international security,&#8221; the statement says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On June 17, a Belarusian tour bus carrying 44 passengers, including 28 minors enrolled in a soccer program, was hit by a drone in Russia. Viktoryja Haro\u0161ka, the wife of a coach from the Re\u010dyca sports school for children, was killed in the attack. Six other people, including five children, were wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While warning against drawing premature conclusions, \u0141uka\u0161enka blamed the strike on a Ukrainian drone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Belarusian foreign ministry&nbsp;initially&nbsp;instructed all its diplomatic missions abroad to spread the information that a Ukrainian combat drone was responsible for the incident, with Rus\u0142an Varanko\u016d describing the attack as \u201cdeliberate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine denied involvement, stating that Ukrainian forces did not use unmanned aerial vehicles against targets in Russia\u2019s Bryansk province on the day the bus was hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a news conference&nbsp;on June 19, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ruled out a Ukrainian strike on the Belarusian passenger bus and cited the incident as an example of \u201cprovocations\u201d designed to \u201cdraw the people of Belarus into this war.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zelensky also slammed Minsk over its continued support for Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine. He gave&nbsp;Belarusian authorities&nbsp;seven days&nbsp;to dismantle four relay systems allegedly used to facilitate Russian&nbsp;drone&nbsp;attacks on Ukraine.&nbsp;\u201cIf&nbsp;[\u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s]&nbsp;does not shut them down, we will shut down everything within a week. Either they will do it, or we will,\u201d the Ukrainian leader&nbsp;warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 26,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;The Belarusian foreign ministry has called for an \u201cimpartial international investigation\u201d into last week\u2019s deadly drone attack on a Belarusian tour bus after Russia took the initiative to announce that Minsk had requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in connection with the incident.&nbsp; The news was broken by Russia\u2019s acting permanent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":186231,"template":"","rubric":[16,30],"class_list":["post-193576","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Belarus confirms Russia\u2019s announcement that Minsk has requested UN 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