{"id":519603,"date":"2026-02-20T19:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=519603"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:49:22","slug":"defense-ministry-acknowledges-drone-incursions-into-belarus-this-year-says-aircraft-and-air-defense-missiles-were-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/defense-ministry-acknowledges-drone-incursions-into-belarus-this-year-says-aircraft-and-air-defense-missiles-were-used","title":{"rendered":"Defense Ministry Acknowledges Drone Incursions Into Belarus This Year, Says Aircraft And Air Defense Missiles Were Used"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Since the beginning of the year, cases of violations of Belarus\u2019s airspace have been recorded, Commander of the Air Force and Air Defense <b>Andrei Lukyanovich<\/b> said on February 20, BelTA reported.<\/p>\n<p>Lukyanovich did not specify how many unmanned aerial vehicles had entered Belarus, but said that aircraft had been used to destroy them.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cIncluding with combat use: our on-duty forces used aircraft, we used anti-aircraft missile troops in order to destroy unmanned aerial vehicles,\u201d<\/i> Lukyanovich said.<\/p>\n<p>According to \u201cFlagstok,\u201d 11 Russian drones entered Belarus between the start of the year and February 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the beginning of the year, cases of violations of Belarus\u2019s airspace have been recorded, Commander of the Air Force and Air Defense Andrei Lukyanovich said on February 20, BelTA reported. Lukyanovich did not specify how many unmanned aerial vehicles had entered Belarus, but said that aircraft had been used to destroy them. \u201cIncluding with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":519602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/69997fa7182ee.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Defense Ministry Acknowledges Drone Incursions Into Belarus This Year, Says Aircraft And Air Defense Missiles Were Used"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}