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Axios: US pressured Lebanon to criticize Hezbollah for drones

US-based Axios website said President Joe Biden's administration pressured the Lebanese government to criticize Hezbollah's sending of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to the Karish field natural gas platform in the Mediterranean sea.

Citing sources briefed on the issue, the website indicated that "U.S. energy envoy Amos Hochstein and U.S. ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea spoke to senior political and military leaders in Lebanon over the weekend," adding that both of them "raised concerns about the drones incident and asked the Lebanese government to publicly speak against it."

Lebanese Resistance movement Hezbollah had released a statement on the three UAVs sent on a recon mission over the Karish gas field, before being shot down by Israeli occupation forces.

Israeli occupation forces had announced that they shot down the three UAVs off the Mediterranean coast. One of the UAVs was downed by an F16 fighter jet, and the other two by Barak missiles launched from the Saar 5 Class Corvette, according to a statement by the IOF.

Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah had recently threatened the Israeli occupation over its attempts to forcibly extract gas from the contested region, saying the resistance is prepared to prevent them from infringing on Lebanese sovereignty.

Israeli media: IOF air force faced difficulty downing Hezbollah drones

A preliminary Israeli occupation forces investigation had revealed that the IOF air force pilots faced difficulty in downing one of Hezbollah's unmanned drones that were launched towards the Karish platform on Saturday, Israeli news website Walla reported.

The IOF investigation report also revealed that the Israeli pilots failed to track the second Hezbollah drone that was launched at the Karish platform before the drone was downed using a Barak missile from the Saar 5 Class Corvette.

The preliminary investigation indicated that the IOF missile launched missed the target, while Israeli pilots also faced difficulties in identifying the third drone because it was flying at a low altitude.

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Minsk intel chief: West military steps are preparations for Europe war

Ruslan Kosygin, head of the main intelligence department of the General Staff of the Belarusian armed forces, said that the West's recent military decisions are essential preparations for war on Europe's eastern flank.

"The entire range of military preparations by the West, including on the territory of Poland, testifies to the systematic development by Washington and Brussels, under the pretext of containing the threat from the East, of mechanisms for creation in the shortest possible time of groupings of troops for their possible use in certain operational areas, as well as a comprehensive support of their actions," said Kosygin. "That’s essentially preparations for engagement in hostilities on the eastern flank."

Poland and the Baltic states "are turning into a testing ground where the United States plans to unleash another bloody conflict in Europe against the Russian Federation and its allies."

"These plans are also confirmed by the ongoing operational and combat training activities that are practicing the transfer of troops (forces), the creation of groupings, their deployment and comprehensive support, and Russia and Belarus are considered as the enemy," Kosygin said.

Furthermore, the ongoing measures to deploy the European version of the US missile defense system are enough to look into to study the framework of how this may inflict military threats and challenges in the region, including on Belarus, according to Kosygin. A missile defense base in Poland, he added, is being put into operation and is close to completion.

Poland is creating further instability: Some Polish politicians are demanding some Polish "historical land" be brought back under its sovereignty - and by that land, they mean western Ukraine and Belarus, according to the official.

The answer to any Western provocations will be proportionate and tough, he said, stressing that the provocative country and its military infrastructure will become a target in case of an attack.

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