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Slack.com slash DHQ. Hey, everyone. There's a little spicy language ahead. Get your earmuffs

ready. Just repeating the facts of exactly what happened to Ryan Air Flight 4978 this weekend.

It feels like you're tapping out the first few lines of a pulpy spy novel. The plane

was supposed to travel non-stop from Greece to Lithuania. It was going to do that by cutting

through Belarus' airspace. But when it did that, the pilots got a message from air traffic

control. A code red. They were told there was a bomb on board.

Belarusian authorities sent a fighter jet to escort the plane to Minsk, even though

they were closer to Lithuania at that point. After they landed, instead of pulling explosives

off the aircraft, authorities pulled off people, specifically a Belarusian dissident that

President Alexander Lukashenko had been trying to capture for years. His 23-year-old girlfriend

got detained, too. In other words, this was a state-sponsored skyjacking.

I mean, it's insane. This was just, I mean, something out of a movie.

Julia Yafi was watching all this play out from New York. She covers the region for GQ

magazine. Yeah. When I saw it on Sunday, I was like, oh, I saw it on Twitter for so

I was like, I don't know. I'm going to wait on this new story to see if it's actually true.

I mean, it's insane. Julia's family is actually from Belarus. She was born in Moscow. It

gives her a unique perspective on what's happening here. She says the first thing you need to know

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