A satellite image shows aircraft, including a Beriev A-50 military surveillance plane, at the Machulishchy air base outside Minsk, Belarus, February 19, 2023. Photograph: Planet Labs Pbc/Reuters
Belarusian anti-war partisans claim to have severely damaged a Russian military aircraft in what an opposition leader has called the “most successful diversion” since the beginning of the war.
BYPOL, the Belarusian partisan organisation, said it had used drones to strike the Machulishchy airfield 12km from Minsk, severely damaging a Beriev A-50 airborne early warning and control aircraft (Awacs).
