According to a statement by the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus on Telegram, the three-day exercise in the Gomel and Grodno regions, which began on Tuesday, April 2, “is aimed at training officers and territorial troops to defend their regions and (should show. – Ed.,) how to act in the event of an invasion martial law.” The Gomel region borders on Ukraine, the Grodno region borders on Lithuania and Poland.
The Ministry of Defense clarifies that the exercises started on the “day of unity of peoples” of Belarus and Russia. “It was on this day in 1996 that the presidents of the two states signed an agreement “On the formation of the Community of Belarus and Russia,” this is how the message explains the reason for cooperation between these countries in the military sphere.
In the winter of 2022, the Belarusian Armed Forces announced a combat readiness check
On December 13, 2022, the Ministry of Defense of Belarus announced a sudden check of combat readiness on the personal instructions of ruler Alexander Lukashenko. “The measures will be comprehensive, the troops will have to move to the designated areas as soon as possible, carry out their engineering equipment, organize security and defense, and also build bridges across the Neman and Berezina rivers,” the message from the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus said.
During the period of the inspection, “the movement of military equipment and personnel, temporary restrictions on the movement of citizens (transport) on certain public roads and areas of terrain were planned.”
In March, the situation on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border remained stable
Belarus, which is the closest ally of the Russian Federation, notes the Ukrainian publication Obozrevatel, has deteriorated relations with its Western neighbors and Ukraine over the past few years – especially after Moscow used Belarusian territory as a springboard for an attack on Kyiv on February 24, 2022.
The publication, citing data from the State Border Service of Ukraine (SBSU), previously reported that the situation on the border between Ukraine and Belarus remains stable; no movement of equipment or personnel was detected. “Now Russia does not have sufficient forces on the territory of Belarus to take any actions against Ukraine in this direction,” the publication quotes the words of a representative of the State Border Guard Service.
Poland will strengthen its military presence in the east of the country
New facilities will be built in four border regions of Poland to strengthen the security and protection of Polish territory, the head of the country’s Ministry of Defense, Kosiniak-Kamysh, said on March 23. He explained that these actions are related to the increasing number of attempts to illegally cross the Polish border from Belarus. In early February, Kosinyak-Kamysh did not rule out a Russian attack on NATO countries if Ukraine was defeated.
In May 2021, Lukashenko announced that Minsk would no longer detain illegal migrants trying to enter the territory of the European Union through Belarus. After this, the number of flights from Middle Eastern countries to Belarus increased, from which the flow of illegal immigrants sharply increased, primarily to Lithuania and then to Poland.
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2024-04-02 15:18:23