> I don't get why they even needed agents on the plane at all. They had to be sure he boarded that flight and didn't get off after he boarded. > And could be

> I don't get why they even needed agents on the plane at all. They had to be sure he boarded that flight and didn't get off after he boarded. > And could be seen as a much more serious aggression. To me it looks like this was a deliberately not very aggressive way of snatching him. The alternative would be to snatch him of the street and smuggle him to Belarus. The logistics would be a lot harder and the diplomatic implications a lot more dire.