A series of explosions took place at Belarusian Machishchi airport close Minsk, resulting in harm to the aircraft and airport snow plows for clearing the airport surface, the Belarusian opposition organizations, including the Belarusian military dissidents, BYPOL, said. Initially, it was said that the Russian Il-76 dense transport aircraft was to be damaged in the attack, but now it is increasingly said that it was nevertheless an early informing and command aircraft of the Beriev A-50, based on the aforementioned Ilyushin design. It would be another immense failure of the Russian air force.
