Ukraine will deploy additional forces on the border with Belarus

Thousands of representatives of Ukraine’s security forces on the Belarusian border will take part in maneuvers “to confront a potential crisis with migrants,” the minister said.

8,500 members of security forces will be stationed there, Monastirski said during a previously unplanned visit to the Volyn region.
The group will have 3,000 border guards, 3,500 national guards and 2,000 police officers, the minister explained.

“The Ministry of the Interior’s aviation will be involved, including 15 helicopters,” he said, adding that the measures would help “deter illegal migrants.”

As the Ukrainian border guards confirmed on Thursday, no “threat” has been observed so far in connection with the crisis of migrants in Belarus.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with Lithuanian counterpart Gitan Nauseda on Thursday and promised to “respond adequately to developments in the border situation”.

As part of an extensive hybrid attack on the regime of Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, attempts have been made in recent months to send thousands of illegal immigrants from Belarus to Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, most of whom have arrived in Belarus as tourists from Iraq.

The EU has accused the Minsk regime of seeking to avenge support for the Belarusian opposition and of sanctions against Belarus in response to last year’s violent crackdown on protests.

Addressing his country’s parliament on Tuesday, Polish Prime Minister Matthew Moravecki accused Putin of being the true curator of the migrant crisis in Belarus.

“The leader of this attack by Lukashenko is in the person of President Putin in Moscow,” the Polish prime minister said in an extraordinary session of the Polish parliament.