The Ukrainian Air Force has denied reports that a Belarusian Airlines Il-62 aircraft allegedly crossed Ukraine’s border. The military said that no Belarusian Airlines aircraft had entered Ukrainian airspace.
Reports about the alleged flight of a Belarusian aircraft over Ukraine appeared on some social media pages on the evening of June 25. The posts cited data from the Flightradar24 service and claimed that a cargo Il-62 had allegedly entered Chernihiv Oblast at 20:30 Kyiv time and later crossed the Ukrainian-Moldovan border.
The Air Force stressed that this information was false. Its communications department informed the Center for Countering Disinformation under Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, which published a denial on its official channels.
The military separately noted that Flightradar24 is a civilian commercial service and is not an official source of information about airspace.
“Flightradar24 is not an official source of information about airspace and is therefore not responsible for providing inaccurate or unreliable information,” the Air Force said.
The Air Force urged media outlets to rely only on verified information from official sources and not to spread fake reports.
The command also reminded that Ukraine’s Air Force is on combat duty around the clock, detecting aerial targets both over Ukrainian territory and far beyond its borders.
Information about aerial threats is published promptly on the official Air Force channels in Telegram, WhatsApp and Viber.
