Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko support in his standoff with the West over the forced landing of an Athens to Vilnius passenger jet to arrest a journalist.
The West has accused Belarus of piracy after Belarusian air traffic control on Sunday informed the Ryanair pilot of a hoax bomb threat and Minsk scrambled a MiG-29 fighter plane to escort the plane down, before arresting Roman Protasevich, a journalist and critic of Lukashenko, along with his girlfriend.
Both are in jail accused of orchestrating mass riots. Protasevich could be jailed for up to 15 years.
But Putin, a close ally of Lukashenko, on Friday gave his support to the Belarusian leader, warmly welcoming him for talks in the southern Russian city of Sochi and agreeing with Lukashenko that the West’s reaction to the incident was “an outburst of emotion”.
“At one time they forced the Bolivian president’s plane to land and took him out of the plane and nothing, silence,” said Putin, referring to a 2013 incident in which Evo Morales’ plane was forced to land in Austria at a time when the United States was trying to intercept whistle-blower Edward Snowden....
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El presidente ruso, Vladímir Putin, recordó este viernes durante una reunión con su homólogo bielorruso, Alexander Lukashenko, el "silencio" de Occidente tras el aterrizaje forzoso del avión del entonces mandatario de Bolivia, Evo Morales, en 2013, en un paralelismo con la situación generada en torno al avión de Ryanair que fue forzado el pasado domingo a aterrizar en Minsk....
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