Lukašenka claims that a Tochka-U missile was fired at Belarus a few days ago, allegedly it was intercepted and shot down over Prypiac’ River

March 15, BPN. Tochka-U missile was fired at the territory of Belarus and it was eliminated, said Aliaksandr Lukašenka on March 15 at a meeting with the senior and operational officers of state security agencies.

“I warned you that we would be pushed into this operation, into this war [in Ukraine]. They will try to drag us into it,” Lukašenka’s press service quotes him as saying. “The evidence of this is [that] just two days ago at night there was another attack on the territory of our Belarus – a Tochka-U missile, which we successfully intercepted together with the Russians and destroyed over Prypiac’.

“It’s somewhere over there by the river. If you’re interested, go check it out. It’s not classified. It’s not a fake, that’s what I’m telling you. We just haven’t talked about it. We had to figure out what was going on there,” Lukašenka said.

He warned that “this missile just won’t reach us.” In his opinion, this was done in order to “stir us up,” so that “we start reacting.”

“But we’re by no means such idiots. If we answer, we are going to answer properly. Everyone would feel it. So far, we are patient,” said Lukašenka.

For the past few days, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been issuing warnings about “the continued high probability of provocations” by the Russian military, aimed at “dragging the Belarusian side into the ranks of the occupation troops.”

Tochka is a tactical (divisional) missile system based on a 6×6 all-wheel drive floating chassis made by the Bryansk Automobile Plant. The Tochka-U missile that the system carries, has a 482-kg warhead and can be equipped with different types of warheads. Missile range is 120 km, probable deviation is 95 m.