“This is a provocation, this is a deliberate provocation to try to split the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
He considers this not accidental, recalling that earlier "very successful negotiations" were held between the presidents of Belarus and Russia, Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin, in Minsk.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of Belarus stated that the Ukrainian S-300 missile was shot down by air defense in the Ivanovo region.
After that, Belarus demanded that the Ukrainian authorities immediately investigate the incident.
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, in turn, announced its readiness to investigate the incident with a missile that fell in Belarus and invite experts.