A court in Minsk sentenced a dozen individuals to prison terms of between two and 25 years on Friday for helping commit what Belarus has called an "act of terrorism" at a military airfield outside the capital last year.

The Minsk City Court sentenced 12 people to prison over sabotage of the Machulishchy military airfield in Belarus last year, the Viasna human rights group said on Oct. 4. Some of the sentences were handed down in absentia.

Activists said in February 2023 that they'd blown up a surveillance plane in a drone attack; Russia and Belarus dismissed assertion as fake