Ukraine's National Security And Defense Council Denied Kyiv's Involvement In The Attack On The Belarusian Bus
3- 2.07.2026, 17:07
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Kyiv called this information a smear campaign.
The Ukrainian army “strictly adheres to the laws and customs of war and strikes only legitimate military targets,” according to statement by the Center for Countering Disinformation of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (CCD NSDC) regarding the UAV attack on a Minsk–Anapa passenger bus at the Belarusian-Russian border.
“The spread by propagandists of false claims about alleged Ukrainian attacks on civilian buses from Belarus is a deliberate provocation by the Russians, who are eager to drag Belarus into the war against Ukraine,” the statement notes. “Belarusian society does not support Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.”
The NSDC’s Press Service does not rule out that the attack was carried out by the Russian Federation, since “the Russians themselves carry out such provocations, <�…> and they are the ones most interested in using Belarusian territory for the war against Ukraine.”
It is noted that “Russian propaganda is actively spreading reports of an alleged strike by a Ukrainian UAV on a Belarusian bus in the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation,” without providing “any evidence.”
It is also pointed out that these reports were published two weeks “after the widespread dissemination of a hoax about an alleged attack by a Ukrainian drone on a Belarusian bus carrying a children’s soccer team in the same Bryansk region.”
Earlier, Russian and Belarusian media outlets and Telegram channels reported a drone strike on a Minsk–Anapa bus at the Krasny Kamen checkpoint on the border between the Gomel and Bryansk regions.