Belarus has handed over materials to the UN Security Council which, according to Minsk, prove the involvement of a Ukrainian drone in the strike on a passenger bus on June 17. This was stated by Belarus’s permanent representative to the UN, Valentin Rybakov, at an emergency meeting of the Security Council.

The main target of the attack was a bus carrying 44 Belarusian citizens to Gelendzhik for vacation. There were 22 children among the passengers. As a result of the strike, one woman was killed, while nine people were injured to varying degrees, including six children.

According to the Belarusian side, the strike was carried out by a Darts-type FPV drone. Rybakov said that the device had been assembled by the Ukrainian engineering group Steel Hornets. The drone’s warhead, Minsk claims, contained about 1.2 kilograms of explosives in TNT equivalent.

The Belarusian permanent representative separately pointed out that Kyiv denied involvement immediately after the incident. However, according to Rybakov, the evidence collected allows Minsk to state the opposite.

The Belarusian side also says the drone was equipped with striking elements and belongs to a Ukrainian line of UAVs.