A group of 14,000 Ukrainian Armed Forces is concentrated near the borders of Belarus.
Therefore, the recent decision to strengthen the country's southern borders is absolutely justified.
State Secretary of the Security Council Alexander Volfovich made this statement on the ONT TV channel.
According to him, “diverse groups of forces and resources have been created” and they have already been withdrawn to the southern regions of Belarus.
The goal is to cover operational areas - in Gomel and Mozyr - to strengthen the performance of tasks by border service agencies.
And all the recent statements and reproaches from both the West and Ukraine that we have created some kind of groups to begin an offensive in the south on Ukrainian territory can only cause a slight grin, said the head of the Security Council.
He added: the Belarusian group of forces near the border with Ukraine is several times smaller than that located in the adjacent territory of the neighboring country.
On the territory of Ukraine, near our borders, there is a group of armed forces and other paramilitary structures of Ukraine – about 14,000 servicemen, Volfovich informed.
He drew attention to the fact that Minsk has never made any reproaches, threats or claims, including territorial ones, against Kyiv.
We have always lived in peace, friendship and harmony, the head of the Security Council noted.
