Belarusian President Alexander LukashenkoMINSK, Jan 17Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko believes that joint exercises with Russia, it is necessary to carry out on the western and southern Belarusian borders. «As you know, in this difficult situation, the President of the Russian Federation (Vladimir Putin — ed.) and I agreed in December last year to jointly carry out unscheduled specific activities on the western borders of the Union State and on the southern flank of Belarus is also the border of the Union State. Today we see that we need to conduct solid exercises in this western and southern region, the “Belarusian balcony,” Sputnik Belarus quotes Lukashenka. He stressed that the exercises should not become exclusively Belarusian. «These should be normal exercises to work out a certain plan in confrontation with these forces: the West (the Baltic states and Poland) and the south (Ukraine),» Lu added. Kashenko.
Russia and Belarus conducted air patrols along the borders
