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Fact Check Reveals False Claims In Lukashenka's Speech On Ryanair Interception


Fact Check Reveals False Claims In Lukashenka's Speech On Ryanair Interception
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When the authoritarian leader of Belarus, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, made a speech defending the forced diversion to Minsk of a Ryanair passenger flight, he made several demonstrably false claims. These included a story about a threat to a Belarusian nuclear power station, which was more than 100 kilometers from the point where the plane was intercepted and not on its planned route to Lithuania.

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