The official Belarusian delegation did not receive Canadian visas to participate in the meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), at which the report on the incident with the "Ryanair" airplane should be considered.

This was reported by

Vladimir Makei

to the Russian news agency "RIA Novosti".

Makei called this decision politicization of the situation surrounding the report and reminded that Minsk considers the previously published ICAO report to be far-fetched and fabricated.

  • This July, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) published a report on the landing of a Ryanair plane in Minsk with Pratasevich on board in May 2021.

  • ICAO, the UN's civil aviation agency, has concluded that Belarusian officials in May last year ordered a knowingly false report of a bomb planted on board a Ryanair airliner carrying opposition journalist Raman Pratasevich.

  • The report lists all the versions of the events mentioned by the Belarusian authorities, the existence of the threat of an explosion in the plane, negotiations with the dispatchers, the reactions of the crew, the letter allegedly from Hamas.

    In the annex to the report, the negotiations of the general director of "Belaeronavigation" with the flight monitoring center are published, in which there is talk of correcting the content and time of the radio exchange on the day of the plane's landing.

  • The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus stated that they "categorically disagree with the conclusions of the ISAO final report."

    According to the agency, "The report contains a lot of gaps and inconsistencies."

The incident with the Ryanair plane, the detention of the blogger Protasevich and the reaction in the world

  • On May 23, approximately after 14:00 Belarusian time, the press service of the Minsk airport announced the emergency landing of the Ryanair plane, which was traveling on the Athens-Vilnius route.

  • According to FlightRadar, the plane flew over almost the entire territory of the western part of Belarus and turned towards Minsk near the border with Lithuania.

  • According to the information of the press service of the airport, the pilots reported about the mine.

    The plane landed successfully.

    The Investigative Committee of Belarus opened a criminal case for knowingly false notification of danger.

  • The operator of international airports of Lithuania reported that the plane made an emergency landing due to a conflict between a passenger and one of the crew members.

  • Later, Ryanair stated that it received an order to land the liner in Minsk from Belarusian dispatchers.

    The press service of the Minsk National Airport confirmed that Belaeronavigation reported about the threat on board the Ryanair crew.

  • At the order of

    Alexander Lukashenko,

    a MiG-29 military fighter jet was taken to the sky to escort the plane.

    Later, the chief foreign policy advisor of the President of Lithuania reported that the Belarusian authorities also raised the Mi-24 helicopter.

  • Minsk airport reported that there were 123 passengers on board.

    Later it became known that there were several more passengers who, after the emergency landing, remained in Belarus and did not fly on to Vilnius.

  • Among the passengers of the plane was a blogger, author of the telegram channel "Belarus hemohomogoza" and former editor-in-chief of the Nexta channels,

    Raman Pratasevich

    , who was included in the "terrorist list" by the Belarusian authorities for "organizing mass riots."

  • Protasevich, who wrote about the alleged surveillance of him at the Athens airport, was detained in Minsk.

  • The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania summoned the temporary representative of Belarus in Lithuania.

    Lithuanian President

    Gitanas Nauseda

    said that the plane was forced to land in Minsk.

  • The actions of the Belarusian authorities were condemned by many European leaders and threatened with serious consequences.

  • After more than 7 hours of waiting, around 20:17 the plane took off from Minsk to Vilnius and landed in Vilnius around 21:30.

  • Together with Protasevich, his girlfriend, a Russian citizen, was detained in Minsk.

  • On May 24, the European Union summit demanded new economic sanctions against the Belarusian authorities and a flight ban.

  • On the evening of May 24, Belarusian state TV channels showed Roman Pratasevich speaking about his guilt in organizing mass actions in Minsk.

    Relatives and friends of the journalist immediately drew attention to bruises on his face and unusual intonation, which may indicate possible long torture.

  • A number of states and airlines banned flights to Belarus and in Belarusian airspace after the capture of Roman Pratasevich.

    They claim that such measures are taken for the safety of their own citizens.

  • On May 28, Protasevich was placed in the KGB pre-trial detention center.

    There is also the girlfriend of journalist

    Sofya Sapeg

    , who is accused of "inciting enmity".

    The lawyer managed to get to Roman only on the fifth day.

    A non-disclosure agreement was taken from her.

  • Also, on May 28, NATO Secretary General

    Jens Stoltenberg

    announced Moscow's possible involvement in the hijacking of the plane.

    On May 31, the North Atlantic Alliance limited access to its headquarters in Brussels to 5 accredited Belarusian diplomats.

  • The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) announced the beginning of its own investigation into the incident.

  • On May 29, the USA suspended the agreement on air traffic with Belarus and announced the preparation of new sanctions against Lukashenka and his entourage.

  • The Proton mail service refuted the version put forward by the official Minsk about letters with information about false mining, which were allegedly sent from Swiss servers to several airports.

    There was only one letter.

    Earlier, the Palestinian bloc Hamas denied its involvement in the bomb threats, and the media found out that the threatening letter arrived only 24 minutes after the dispatcher's warning.

  • After a series of bans, the number of "Belavia" flights dropped by 80.5% in one week.

    The state-owned monopolist company on the air transport market is trying to fill a sharp shortage with new flights to Russia.

  • On June 4, the European Union banned all Belarusian airlines from flying in the EU's airspace and access to the EU's airports.

  • At the beginning of June, the state television channel ANT showed Roman Pratosevich in the program of the head of the channel

    Marat Markov

    , called "Markov.

    Nothing personal."

    Radio Svaboda does not publish fragments of this interview, because it is not known under what circumstances the conversation was recorded and whether Pratasevich could refuse to answer the questions that were put to him.

    Experts talk about the blogger's high level of stress, fear and possible pressure, and associates and relatives believe that the "interview" was recorded under torture or the threat of torture.

  • On June 8, after 11 days of absence, lawyer

    Ines Alenska was

    allowed to visit Protasevich .

    He was investigated, during which he was not even allowed to go to the toilet for 7 hours.

    Roman contracted tonsillitis while in prison.

  • On June 14, Protasevich was brought to a meeting of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus with journalists.

    Many journalists said that they do not believe that Protasevich speaks his words voluntarily.

    BBC journalist John Fisher left the hall, writing that the detainee would clearly speak under duress, and BelaPAN journalist Tatsiana Karaviankova said that she did not believe anything that was said, and expressed sympathy for the prisoner.

  • On June 15, the director of Ryanair told how the Belarusian authorities pressured the captain of the plane and the crew.

  • On June 16, the Russian media reported that the "General Prosecutor's Office of the People's Republic of China" thanked Lukashenka for the possibility of conducting investigations against Roman Protasevich." In response, Ukraine declared that these were intrigues of the Kremlin, since "the actual control over the temporarily occupied territories is carried out by the occupation administration of the Russian Federation The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine demanded from the authorities of Belarus to comment on the information about the visit to Minsk by the so-called "prosecutor's office" of the self-proclaimed republic.

  • On June 25, Roman Pratosevich and Sofya Sapieha were placed under house arrest.

  • On January 17, 2022, the ICAO sent a report on the incident to the authorities of all member countries of the organization after several postponements of the deadline.

  • The text of the report is on 30 pages.

    Among other things, it includes the transcripts of the negotiations of the plane's crew with the dispatchers and the diagram of the plane's flight over Belarus with an analysis of the distance between the passenger liner and the fighter of the Belarusian Air Force.

  • "The authorities of Belarus did not provide the necessary information," says the report of the ICAO investigation into the Ryanair landing in Minsk.

  • Annexes to the ICAO report on the incident with the Ryanair plane on May 23, 2021, when Raman Pratosevich was detained

    On January 20, the United States filed charges in absentia against the head of "Belaeronavigation"

    Leonid Churo

    , his deputy

    Oleg Kazyuchits

    , and two KGB employees for conspiracy to commit air piracy.

    The indictment was filed in the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York.

    According to him, he faces from 20 years of imprisonment to life imprisonment.

  • The US Justice Department has concluded that Belarusian officials used a false bomb alert to force a plane carrying four US citizens to land in Minsk.

    According to prosecutors, it was necessary to arrest the opposition blogger Raman Pratosevich.

  • The representative of "Belaeronavigation"

    Oleg Kazyuchyts

    said in response,

    that the filing of air piracy charges by American prosecutors against the heads of their company may be an instrument of pressure or provocation before the ICAO meeting, which will consider the report on the incident with the Ryanair Athens-Vilnius flight.

  • On July 20, ICAO published an official report on the incident, in which it said that the Belarusian version of events had not received any confirmation, the video and audio recordings were corrected and deleted, and the transcript of the conversations showed that the dispatcher of the team to the crew of the plane was dictated by the special services.

    The plane's claim was false.