"A ditch, an embankment, a reinforced concrete fence with barbed wire are engineering barriers that are being built in Volyn.

In this way, about 3 km of the border has already been improved, and the work continues.

This is not all, but we will not reveal the details," he noted.

According to him, construction works are also underway in Rivne and Zhytomyr regions.

In addition, fortifications are being built in the regions bordering Russia.

"It is important that the regional government and local business systematically work on the arrangement of the border.

We all want protection, we are doing everything to stop even a hypothetical advance of the enemy," Tymoshenko added.

• On October 10, it was announced that the Kremlin and Minsk agreed on the deployment of a joint group of troops in Belarus "in connection with the escalation on the western borders of the Union State."

  It was reported that about 170 tanks, up to 200 combat vehicles and up to 100 guns and mortars, as well as at least 9,000 soldiers of the Russian army, will be sent from Russia to Belarus.

• After the migrant crisis on the border with Belarus, which lasted for several months, a fence was built by Lithuania and Poland.

  In Lithuania, with a total border length of 679 km, the fence is 502 km long.

  Poland has built a 180 km fence on its border with Belarus.

  Latvia recently announced the construction of a similar barrier.