Belarus does not notify citizens about drone flights, but shares information about them with neighboring countries. Those notify even on approach

Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Robertas Kaunas reported that Belarus warned Lithuania on Tuesday evening about drone movements over Belarusian territory in the direction of Lithuania.

"At 22:47, via the technical line from the Belarusian side, information arrived that unidentified objects were flying towards Lithuania, which Belarus was trying to neutralize," Robertas Kaunas told LRT television on Wednesday.

10 minutes after receiving this information, all residents of Vilnius, Vilnius and Utena districts received notifications about a "possible air danger (yellow level)".

The alarm itself was not ultimately declared, the objects did not eventually enter Lithuanian airspace, they turned towards Latvia and Russia. The discussion was likely about Ukrainian drones, knocked off course by Russian electronic warfare means.

In Belarus, the population was not notified about drone flights yesterday, nor during other similar incidents.

In Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia, air alarms have been declared multiple times during drone incursions. These incursions have not yet had serious consequences: drones mostly fell in sparsely populated areas or were shot down over fields and forests by NATO fighters.

On the night of November 11, another drone later entered Lithuanian territory, stayed there for a few minutes, then entered Poland, after which it returned to Lithuania and proceeded to Latvia without consequences.

The regime of Aliaksandr Lukashenka adheres to a different line than the authorities of Lithuania, Poland, and Latvia regarding informing the population about potential threats. It appears that Minsk aims for the population not to worry. This resembles the Belarusian authorities' approach to COVID at the peak of the epidemic in 2020-2021.

After the start of the coronavirus pandemic in Belarus, data on mortality was classified, but from data obtained by "Cyberpartisans," it became known that during the pandemic from 2020 to 2022, excess mortality amounted to over 90,000 people. These losses could not have occurred due to anything other than COVID-19. Mortality began to rise in March 2020, when the Belarusian authorities still completely denied the existence of a threat. Mortality in Belarus significantly exceeded the figures of all other European countries, speaking of tens of thousands of lost lives.

Although residents of Belarus are punished for disseminating information, independent media received information about drone crashes in western Minsk, and, on multiple occasions, in the Homiel region. Also, drone strikes were likely targeted at communication towers in southern Belarus.

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