OREANDA-NEWS  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus summoned the Charge d'affaires of Lithuania in the Republic of Erikas Vilkanetsas. He was strongly protested in connection with the violation of the border by a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from the territory of Lithuania. This was announced by the press secretary of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry Ruslan Varankov.

"On May 21, the Charge d'affaires of the Republic of Lithuania in the Republic of Belarus, Erikas Vilkanecas, was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus," the press secretary said. "He was strongly protested in connection with another gross violation of the state border of Belarus by an unmanned aerial vehicle from the territory of Lithuania."

According to the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, on May 17, a Ukrainian Chaika UAV, which was initially heading to the territory of the Russian Federation to launch strikes, was discovered near the village of Stanislavtsy in the Dokshitsky district of the Vitebsk region.