Speaking at a press conference at the UN yesterday morning, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations Dmitry Polyanskiy condemned the hypocrisy of those who objected to the arrest of Raman Pratasevic when the Ryanair flight he was on landed in Minsk rather than Vilnius — based on reports that there was a bomb on board — while ignoring Ukraine’s threats to send jet fighters to bring down a plane carrying a Ukrainian opposition leader in 2016. [https://russiaun.ru/en/news/briefing_280521]
Polyanskiy pointed out that Pratasevic was not exactly a “reporter” but rather a regime-change fighter associated with the Azov Battalion of neo-Nazis, as covered in extensive detail by Ben Norton at The Grayzone on May 26. https://thegrayzone.com/2021/05/26/belarus-roman-protasevich-plane-nazis-ukraine/
