🔧 Sabotage

Belarusian partisans disabled a Russian A-50 aircraft at the Machulishchy airbase in February 2023.

February 26, 2023 Machulishchy, Ukraine

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Belarusian partisans (military_unit) A-50 (weapon_system) Machulishchi airbase (location) Machulishchy airbase (location) Belarusian opposition (organization) Franak Viacorka (person) Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (person) Beriev A-50 (weapon_system) BYPOL (organization) MAVIC quadcopter (weapon_system) A-50U (weapon_system) A-50 early warning and control aircraft (weapon_system)

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Ukrinform → Source tone: certain

Belarusian partisans disabled a Russian A-50 aircraft at Machulishchy airbase in February 2023

Kyiv Post → Source tone: uncertain

Partisans confirmed a successful special operation to blow up a rare Russian plane at the airfield in Machulishchy near Minsk. This is the most successful act of sabotage since the beginning of 2022.

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: likely

Belarusian partisans allegedly carried out the sabotage on Feb. 26, 2023, damaging a Russian A-50 early warning and control aircraft

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