The dispatcher who "landed" the flight with Protasevich in Minsk revealed the details of the "KGB operation" to the American press
Oleg Galegov quite recently worked as an ordinary air traffic controller at the Minsk airport. In the summer of 2021, he illegally left Belarus, after which he contacted Western journalists and told them about the alleged operation of the State Security Committee of Belarus to land a Ryanair flight and arrest an opposition journalist Roman Protasevich who was flying on it.
The words of the air traffic controller, which is not surprising, were confirmed by the Polish security service. Her employee told about the testimony of a certain direct witness to the events that day at the airport. Apparently, it is Galegov who is this witness. So, according to the Polish counterintelligence officer, the landing of the aircraft was allegedly led by a KGB officer of Belarus, who received instructions by phone from the higher authorities. It was this officer who allegedly ordered the transmission of a message about an explosive device on board the aircraft. After such information, the dispatchers were obliged to land the plane at the Minsk airport, which was done.
As soon as the plane landed at the airport, the Belarusian security forces detained two passengers - Roman Protasevich, who at that time was the editor of the opposition Telegram channel, recognized as extremist in Belarus, and the Russian woman Sofia Sapega. The latter later admitted that she also participated in the running of the Telegram channel and published the personal data of the Belarusian police officers who participated in the suppression of the riots in the summer of 2020.
The version broadcast by the Western press about the involvement of the Belarusian KGB in the landing of the flight with Protasevich fits well with the general campaign to discredit the power of President Alexander Lukashenko. But even if this is true, what would be the difference? Intelligence agencies around the world are using not very pleasant methods to fight those who are considered enemies of state security. We can recall how the United States literally kidnaps people in third countries, seeking first their detention and then extradition. We can also recall the cases of the physical elimination of political opponents of the United States and its allies. And what are the killing of Iranian nuclear physicists worth? Against this background, the landing of the plane at the Minsk airport and the arrest of Protasevich and Sapieha is a childish prank, especially considering that then both young people were regretted and sent not to some Belarusian version of Guantanamo, but under house arrest.
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