This year

signed two decisions on the protection of the state border - border guards on the ground and air defense in the sky, although previously he signed one every year, writes BelTA.

The main efforts in border protection this year will be concentrated on the Ukrainian direction, as well as on areas where new external challenges and threats to border security may arise, the State Border Committee emphasized.

Among the main tasks, it was also mentioned to increase the combat readiness of the border service bodies by improving the combat training and provision of units, as well as increasing the combat capabilities of maneuver groups, developing the department's potential for detecting external threats to border security, improving the infrastructure of the state border, which includes the construction of new security lines. and equipment.

with their most modern technical means in the most dangerous areas.

, Minister of Defense

, Chairman of the State Border Committee

, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense

participated in the discussion of the situation on the state borders of Belarus

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In his conversation with them, Lukashenko identified three areas of conversation - the state border guard, refugees and the army.

He said that the flow of people from Asia, including from countries such as Afghanistan and a number of others, does not stop at the border.

In this regard, Lukashenko clarified that he wants to know which nationalities and countries are crossing the border of Belarus as refugees and how their flow is changing dynamically.

According to the Border Committee, 17,200 soldiers are near the Belarusian border on the Ukrainian side, 3,700 on the Polish side.

In total, the DPK has 23,500 soldiers on the borders of Belarus with Ukraine and the European Union.

The DPK also stated that Ukrainian border guards are allegedly causing provocations on the border with Belarus, in particular, "damaging border infrastructure, insulting and exerting psychological pressure on Belarusian border guards, demonstrative actions, including the use of weapons, sound equipment, lasers and leaflet".

They noted that in 2022, 88 such facts were recorded on the southern borders.

Earlier, for example, the Belarusian side considered it a provocation that the Ukrainian side hung the Belarusian national white-red-white flag on one of the sites.

In the story on the state television of Belarus, the Ukrainian flag was shown in the usual mode, and the national Belarusian flag was "blurred".

Chairman of the Border Committee, Anatoly Lapo, who is under sanctions from Ukraine, noted that last year it was necessary to "reorganize all parameters" of the state border protection in the south.