MOSCOW—Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Wednesday a journalist pulled off a plane that was forced down in Minsk had been plotting a bloody rebellion and accused the West of waging a hybrid war against him.
In his defiant remarks, his first in public since he ordered a warplane to intercept a Ryanair flight between EU members Greece and Lithuania, he showed no hint of backing down from a confrontation with countries that accuse him of air piracy.
