WARSAW, Nov 12 - RIA Novosti. Poland considers the Russian paratroopers conducting exercises in Belarus a threat, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydac said on Radio ZET.
"This is, firstly, a threat, and secondly, a real scenario," said Pshidach.
On Friday, the Ministry of Defense of Belarus reported that Belarusian and Russian paratroopers are performing combat training tasks at the Belarusian training ground against the background of an increase in military activity near the western border of the republic.
On Monday, the State Border Committee of Belarus reported that a large group of refugees, mostly Kurds, headed for the border of Belarus with Poland. About 2 thousand refugees, including a significant number of women and children, stopped in front of the Polish barriers on the border line, they set up a spontaneous camp near the Bruzgi checkpoint in the Grodno region. Polish security forces do not let them pass, they do not consider those arriving from Belarus as refugees, migrants, in turn, made attempts to overcome the barriers.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of Belarus stated that Poland's decision to concentrate 15,000 troops, tanks, air defense systems, and other heavy weapons at the border with Belarus cannot be called an adequate response to the migration crisis. The ministry said that this is more like the creation of shock groups of troops, and stressed that the actions of the Polish military are contrary to all international and bilateral agreements. Poland has increased the number of security forces against the background of the appearance of a spontaneous refugee camp of about two thousand people on the Belarusian-Polish border at the Bruzgi checkpoint in the Grodno region of Belarus.
The head of the Department of International Military Cooperation of the Ministry of Defense of Belarus, Oleg Voinov, said earlier that, given the unwillingness of the Polish military leadership to engage in dialogue, Minsk is forced to take adequate response measures "both independently and within the framework of existing agreements with its strategic ally, the Russian Federation."
Lithuania, Latvia and Poland have recently reported an increase in the number of illegal migrants detained at the border with Belarus, accusing Minsk of creating a migration crisis. Minsk denies all charges. In connection with the situation, the President of Poland has imposed a state of emergency on the territories bordering Belarus, the army and police are involved in border protection. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko noted that Minsk will no longer restrain the flow of illegal migrants to the EU countries: due to Western sanctions, there is "neither money nor strength" for this. Belarusian border guards have repeatedly stated about the forcible expulsion of migrants by Lithuania, Poland and Latvia to the Belarusian territory.
