President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, instructed to harshly respond to possible provocations on the border from the adjacent states. He stated this in the Oshmyansky district, visiting the area of the area where measures are being taken to check combat readiness of formations and military units, BelTA reports.
“I will publicly say: any provocation should be suppressed by armed path. There is nothing to joke with them. They violated the state border – to destruction. No one should ceremony with anyone. And we will do so. Because if we chew the snot, you know what will happen. Therefore, any violation of the state border is for destruction. They understand only power, ” – Skazallukasheshnko.
As the commander of the troops of the North-Western operational command Alexander Naumenko, currently in the northwestern operational direction, remains complex and tends to increase the stress, which is confirmed by the state border of Belarus in the border territory with engineering structures in the form of anti-tank ditches, fire positions, as well as focusing in the warehouses of material and technical means and ammunition.
In the northwestern operational direction, the adjacent side strengthened the protection of the state border. The total number of forces involved there to the protection of the Belarusian section of the state border is about 3.2 thousand people, including in Lithuania – up to 2.8 thousand people, in Latvia – up to 500, the commander noted.
According to him, the number of military contingents of NATO countries, which are in the framework of solving various problems, is up to 7.7 thousand people in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Military units and units of the United Armed Forces of NATO, including in the Baltic and Poland countries, are engaged in operational and combat training.
Alexander Naumenko noted that now in a number of countries, including Lithuania and Poland, the exercises “Quadriga-2024” are held. Within the framework of the conducted teaching at the Prading training ground (15 km from the state border), three battalions are concentrated (infantry and mechanized UHF battalions and the US tank battalion).
At the same time, the battalions located at the PABABAD training ground can be involved in the provocative actions near the state border with the use of sabotage and intelligence groups and illegal armed groups, the commander said.
Air intelligence against Belarus is also underway. On average, 4-5 reconnaissance aircraft aircraft are recorded daily. Currently, 132 combat aircraft from the NATO aviation group are based on the northwestern operating direction, the commander noted.