Ukraine’s foreign ministry denied today that Kiev was involved in sabotage at an airport in Belarus last month.

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko claimed that Ukrainian and US intelligence services were involved in the drone attack in late February, which was claimed by Belarusian anti-government activists.

“It is clear that this is another attempt to create an artificial threat from Ukraine to justify (Belarusian) support for Russia’s aggression”Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said in a statement.

Mykhailo Podoliak, adviser to the head of the Office of the Ukrainian president, responding to today’s speech of the Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, in which he said that a suspect was arrested in this case, said that this action was not terrorist as Lukashenko stated, but “anti-terrorist” act.

Lukashenko said today that they were arrested in Belarus “terrorist of the Ukrainian secret services and his associates”, who allegedly managed on February 26 to hit a spy plane with a drone at the Matsulisakh airport near Minsk. Lukashenko described this attack as terrorist.

“We need to define the terms” Podoliak wrote. “It is a terrorist attack when missiles are launched from the territory of Belarus towards Ukrainian cities. Sabotage is when sabotage groups enter from the borders of Belarus. Hit against A-50 flying radar aircraft is an anti-terrorist act, which is actually carried out by local partisans”.

The Belarusian opposition organization BYPOL announced immediately after the attack that it was carried out by Belarusian partisans who managed to flee the country.