🔧 Sabotage

Belarusian guerrillas attacked an A-50 aircraft at the Machulyshchi airbase on February 2023.

February 1, 2023 Machulyshchi, Minsk Oblast

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Ukrinform Ukrainska Pravda Kyiv Independent

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Ukrinform → Source tone: uncertain

Earlier, a similar aircraft was attacked by Belarusian guerillas at the Machulyshchi airbase (February 2023).

Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: likely

Explosions were heard at the Machulishchy airbase in Minsk Oblast, Belarus in February 2023, damaging a Russian A-50 AWACS aircraft

Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: likely

Belarusian partisans were behind the sabotage at Machulishchy airbase, and participants left Belarus and are now safe

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: speculation

BYPOL claimed to have conducted an attack on a Russian military aircraft at Machulishchy airfield using drones.

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