RFE/RL: False claims in Lukashenko’s speech on Ryanair interception

When the authoritarian leader of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, made a speech defending the forced diversion to Minsk of a Ryanair passenger flight, he made several demonstrably false claims. These included a story about a threat to a Belarusian nuclear power station, which was more than 100 kilometers from the point where the plane was intercepted and not on its planned route to Lithuania.