Military drills in Belarus do not pose a threat to Ukraine – border guards

This was stated at a briefing on January 14 by the spokesman for the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, Andr Demchenko, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"As for the exercises, these are not the first ones to be held. And I think that this year we will see them repeatedly on the territory of Belarus, with various components of their armed forces or the security and defense sector invved. Exercises on the territory of Belarus practically never stped in 2023 and 2024. Therefore, these announced drills, which are to last until late January, pose no threat to us," Demchenko said.

The spokesman also recalled that in previous years, such exercises in Belarus were conducted jointly with units of the army of the aggressor state.

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"I should add that at the moment, there are no Russian tros – a strike group in sufficient numbers – on the territory of Belarus. After all, the terrorist state gradually withdrew them to its own territory. They did not bring in new tros as part of the rotation. Therefore, it is Belarus that continues to escalate now, playing along with Russia," he added.

As Ukrinform reported earlier, on Tuesday, January 14, a joint staff training exercise of the joint command of the regional grouping of tros (forces) of Belarus and the Russian Federation was lauched in Minsk, with the purpose of "increasing the defense capability" of the Union State.

At the same time, attempts by Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups to penetrate the Ukrainian border continue to be recorded.

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