Belarus fighter jet shoots down Russian drone
Three Shahed-136 drones on display to mark the 44th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Farsnews/Mahdi Marizad)
The confrontation followed a history of untroubled fly-throughs by similar drones en route to Ukraine.
A Belarusian fighter jet shot down a Russian drone in its airspace in August 2024 marking the first time a Belarusian aircraft has downed a drone. The reason for the shooting is more ambiguous as Belarusian President Lukashenko has long been a staunch Russian ally. In fact, Russian drones regularly fly through Belarusian airspace on their journey to Ukraine.
The Belarusian Hajun Project, an open-source intelligence outlet that monitors military activity of Russian and Belarusian troops in Belarus, has said that at least six Russian drones "flew off course" and entered Belarus during a mass drone attack on Ukraine in
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