15.10.2026. Парад в Восточной Ливии. Фото: командования Ливийской национальной армии.
A parade of assault and airborne units of the special forces was held in Benghazi, eastern Libya, on October 15, 2026. The press service of the Libyan National Army (LNA) command published a photo report from the event. Among the weapons displayed was the Belarusian Mirotvorets UAV. There had been no previous reports of deliveries of this weapon to eastern Libya.
The supply of attack drones to Libya without prior approval from the UN Security Council sanctions committee constitutes a violation of the arms embargo against the country. The embargo was imposed on February 26, 2011, under UN Security Council Resolution 1970.
Products developed by the INDELA Design Bureau, which was renamed Unmanned Helicopters Design Bureau (UAVHELI brand) in 2017, have been involved in controversy before.
The company initially developed the Berkut-BM drone, supposedly a robotic aerial target with a wingspan of 2.8 meters, a weight of 33 kilograms, a turbojet engine, a parachute recovery system and a speed of 450 km/h.
The “target” was later transformed into the Mirotvorets UAV — a turbojet-powered kamikaze drone with a wingspan of 2.8 meters, a range of 180 kilometers and a 10-kilogram warhead. Prototypes were manufactured in 2021. The drone is now in serial production.
The Belarusian drone is known to be equipped with compact micro-turbojet engines manufactured by the Chinese company Swiwin.
At MILEX-2023, a prospective Mirotvorets-P mobile counter-UAV system was presented.
In February 2025, Reform.news reported that M23 rebels had seized a shipment of military equipment at Goma Airport, in the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The captured equipment included new Berkut-BM UAVs packed in wooden crates.
In June 2026, Indian company SMPP announced that it had completed the delivery of 100 jet-powered Peacekeeper (Agniveg) kamikaze attack drones and six training systems to the Indian Army. These were Belarusian UAVs. The contract was signed in 2025 with Belspetsvneshtechnika.
Afghanistan International has claimed that India is purchasing weapons from Belarus for the Taliban.
The parade on October 15, 2026, was attended by the commander of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces, Khalifa Haftar, and his son and deputy, Saddam Haftar.
The event took place at the Assault and Parachute Training School and marked the 12th anniversary of Haftar’s forces entering Benghazi on October 15, 2014.
According to the press service, the parade was also attended by the head of the eastern Libyan government, Osama Hammad, military commanders, official delegations from “friendly countries” and families of fallen servicemen.
Judging by the photographs, representatives of Belarus were also present: reserve Major General Siarhei Dudko and Captain A. A. Pratsenka.
Siarhei Ryhoravich Dudko is a retired military officer and veteran of the war in Afghanistan. He headed the Special Operations Forces Directorate of the General Staff and later served as head of the Territorial Defense Directorate and deputy chief of the General Staff of the Belarusian Armed Forces. He subsequently worked as deputy head of the CIS Anti-Terrorism Center and became president of the Belarusian Shooting Sport Federation in 2021.
Captain Pratsenka is a particularly interesting figure. Reform.news has established that the young man’s name is Anton and that he has extensive ties to Libya.
In 2018, the country’s main newspaper, SB. Belarus Segodnya, devoted an entire article to his family. It turns out that Anton’s great-grandfather, grandfather and father were also connected to the military.
Anton was born in Minsk but lived with his parents in Libya until the ninth grade. He then studied at Minsk City Cadet School No. 2 and in 2017 enrolled in the Tank Unit Command program at the Combined Arms Faculty of the Military Academy of Belarus.
The SB article says nothing about Anton’s father but mentions his grandfather, Aliaksandr Uladzimiravich Pratsenka, also a former tank officer. An announcement can be found online about a creative meeting with Aliaksandr Uladzimiravich Pratsenka, described as “a veteran of the Armed Forces and combat operations in Libya, a ‘thinker with a creative mindset,’ a true officer and patriot.”
Traces of the “true patriot” can also be found in a database of denunciations. On September 16, 2020, during the protests, Aliaksandr Uladzimiravich reported two women to the police for “listening to loud music and waving a white-red-white flag.”
It was not possible to establish what Anton’s father did in Libya. A person with the same full name, Pratsenka A. A., was a commander of Tu-22K and Tu-22P aircraft at Machulishchy before they were transferred to Russia in 1994.
After graduating from the Academy, Anton decided not to pursue a career in tank units and instead joined the Department of International Military Cooperation of the Ministry of Defense. He appears in a group photograph of the department’s employees published in the ministry’s newspaper, Vo Slavu Rodiny.
In photographs from the parade in eastern Libya, Anton Pratsenka can be seen wearing a shoulder patch reading “Directorate for Administrative and Logistical Support of the Central Military Command Bodies.”