Łukaszenki's secret factory produces kamikaze drones. “Belarus of a budget, earning in war”
As members of the BYPOL group of journalists and former members of the services dealing with exposing the crime and abuse of the Lukashenko regime revealed on Tuesday, as members of the Lukashenko regime, the production plant “Fishing Drilliots” operates at one of the housing estates in Minsk. The production plans of the company that journalists reached, show that two types of kamikaze drones – “Askelon” with a range of up to 310 km and “Mirotworiec” with a range of up to 180 km are to be created there. Both can carry an explosive of up to 10 kg. By the end of this year, the factory is to reach a capacity of 960 pieces a year.
Formally, it is a private enterprise. However, as determined as a result of the investigation, oligarchs and representatives of the regime are involved in business, for example Szejman's Wiktar, former head of the administration of the President of Belarus and his extraordinary representative, one of the few trusted people of Lukashenko.
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The documents presented by journalists show that the company has a factory, which in 2023 was bought by another related entity – it will “be ordered by Lietatelnyje cameras”. Investigators bypol noticed A surprisingly low purchase price located in the capital of the plant – 4 million Belarusian rubles (equivalent to less than PLN 4.6 million) – And to the fact that this transaction, as well as its conditions, was the subject of a separate regulation issued in September 2023 by Lukashenko.
As the authors of the investigating material noted, in the event of an armed conflict, the Armament Production Plant becomes the natural target of the attacks, and Locating such a factory at a housing estate, among blocks, shops and kindergartens, puts the lives of its inhabitants in danger.
“Belarus hides participation in the war”
Explaining why Lukashenko's camera bothers himself to hide the launch of drones, journalist Belsat Jakub Biernat noticed that Belarus tries to pretend that he has little to do with the war in Ukraine.
In his opinion, in this way he tries to hide that combat drones are produced from double purpose components. To this end, the path of these elements to Belarus is complicated, for example by multiplying the number of different strange brokers. – And when one of the enterprises is covered by sanctions, the other opens. Of course, private, so that it is as little as possible with the Belarusian state. It was similar with optical sight to Russian tanks – added Biernat.
“China provides components”
As the expert explained, the main donor of the components to the armament armament emerging in Belarus are China, who try to create appearances that they do not support Russia, which of course they do, but quietly.
Jakub Biernat pointed out that Belarus is constantly trying to adapt to the needs of Russia. And this, intensifying the drone war with Ukraine, needs more and more unmanned ships. The plant producing them Underestimated by the Ukrainians It is worth the weight of Russia, because he in Tatarstan (a factory in the Special Economic Zone of Alabug, in which the drones of Geran-2 are created, which is the Russian version of Iranian Shaaeds-136) can be destroyed.
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The expert pointed out that Sanctions, Belarus, tries to patch the budget, earning in war. This state has an outdated, but still operating industrial park, enabling the production and renovation of trucks and military vehicles. – Russia is struggling with a lack of hands to work. That is why Belarus is already a dream base for her – he emphasized.
Jakub Biernat added that it was a conscious policy, but he was quiet, so as not to be exposed to the West too much. Łukaszenka hopes that he will somehow be able to renew contacts with the West, especially with the administration of Donald Trump.
