Belarus summons Ukraine’s ambassador after air defence missile strays across border

Belarus protested to Ukraine’s ambassador on Thursday after saying it had downed a Ukrainian S-300 air defense missile in a field, during one of Russia’s heaviest aerial onslaughts against Ukraine since the start of the war in February.

The military commissar of the Brest region, Oleg Konovalov, played the incident down in a video posted on social media by the state-run BelTA news agency, saying locals had “absolutely nothing to worry about. Unfortunately, these things…