During the air raid in Ukraine on January 19, announced due to the activity of Russian aviation in the sky over Belarus, the engine in the Russian MiG-31K fighter caught fire over the city of Molodechno, Minsk region, the Telegram channel Belaruski Gayun reported..

Around 12:00 local time (11:00 Kyiv time), residents of the city heard an explosion, after which Russian aircraft began to land. In Belarusian social networks, they wrote that windows in houses shook from the explosion in the city and suburbs.

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As a result of the incident, the Russian fighter was forced to urgently end the flight and return to the Machulishchi airfield.

The monitoring group notes that this is the second incident of a malfunction in a particular fighter. In particular, on December 25, an aircraft with this tail number, when trying to take off from the airfield in Machulishchi.

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Earlier, the General Staff warned that in the coming days for Ukraine there would be an increased threat of missile and air strikes by Russian invaders using the airspace of Belarus in connection with the start of new exercises on the territory of the republic.