The air traffic controller of the Minsk airport, who escaped from Belarus to Poland in the summer, told The New York Times how KGB officers landed a Ryanair plane flying to Vilnius with opposition leader Roman Protasevich on May 23 in Minsk.
Sources of the American newspaper in the Polish special service reported that the air traffic controller provided evidence that the landing of this liner on the territory of Belarus was a KGB operation.
The dispatcher informed the pilots about the bomb planted in the plane; he also recommended the crew to make an emergency landing at the Minsk airport for security reasons.
However, all this time in the control tower there was an officer of the State Security Committee (KGB) of Belarus, who at the most crucial moment he took full control of the air traffic control service.
Recall that immediately after the plane landed in Minsk, one of the founders of the opposition telegram channel NEXTA Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend, Russian woman Sofya Sapega, were arrested.
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