 Belarus announced on Monday that it shot down the Ukrainian reconnaissance drone on the two countries' border. A border security unit on duty on the Dnieper River discovered a drone that had violated the state border from Ukrainian territory, the Belarusian border committee said. It stressed that the drone had been used for the reconnaissance of the border area of Belarus. The drone was intercepted in the Bryzinskiy area of Gomelsky region in southeastern Belarus. Border guards had downed the drone into Dnieper River using electronic air defense systems, the committee said. The downing of the drone came days after Minsk announced the arrival of Wagner fighters in its territory, following the weeks of uncertainty over the group members' whereabouts after the short mutiny in Russia.