Foreign Ministry criticized Western reaction to Ryanair incident

Recall that after the landing of the plane in which the former editor -in-chief of the Nexta Telegram channel, Roman Protasevich, was accused by the Belarusian authorities of inciting protests in the country after the presidential elections on August 9, Western countries called the situation with the plane's landing "shocking" and called for a thorough international investigation.

Zakharova noted that she was shocked by the statement of Western countries about the "shocking incident." According to her, this is not the first time that a plane has been landed because of one person on board, even though the Belarusian authorities deny that the landing was carried out solely for the sake of arresting Protasevich. As an example, she cited the 2013 landing of the plane of Bolivian President Evo Morales in Austria after a number of EU countries banned him from flying through their airspace. In 2016, there was another case: Ukraine returned a Belavia plane to the airport to interrogate blogger Armen Martirosyan on board. Zakharova noted that in this situation, Western countries should either "shock" all such cases, or not shock at all if others do the same.

"The life of civilized democratic countries cannot be built on the principle of "quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi" ("what is allowed to Jupiter, is not allowed to a bull"). This position has long been out of date due to the loss of the once leading true leadership qualities. Blood and suffering of millions around the world they knocked out from under the Western demagogues the stool with which they preached", - Zakharova wrote on her page in Facebook.

In her opinion, the information campaigns that Western countries are trying to deploy in the media against the background of individual events are no longer bringing the desired effect. “The Internet remembers all the cases of violent abductions, forced landings and illegal arrests carried out by "the guardians of order and guardians of morality", - she added.

We will remind, after an emergency landing of the passenger plane Protasevich, who was on board, was detained. A number of countries have decided to abandon flights over Belarus after the incident with the interception of the aircraft. Ryanair's chief executive called the incident "a state-supported hijacking". He suggested that there were employees of the Belarusian KGB on board the plane.