MINSK, Dec 21 - RIA Novosti. The Ministry of Defense of Belarus reported that the republic's aviation conducted, together with the aviation of the Russian Federation, another patrol of the air borders of the Union State of the two countries.
"The tasks of joint patrolling of the air borders of the Union State are continuing," the press service of the Ministry of Defense said in its Telegram channel.
It is noted that "all the tasks assigned to the crews were performed with high quality, which once again confirms the high level of training of pilots of Belarus and Russia."
Earlier, the Defense Ministry of Belarus reported that it had been decided to increase the composition of the air defense forces on duty and joint patrolling of the state border in the airspace by aviation of the air force and air defense forces of the armed forces of Belarus and the aerospace forces of the Russian Federation. It was explained that the decision was made "in connection with the frequent cases of flights of various types of aviation near the state border of the Republic of Belarus and in the interests of preventing violations of the state border in the airspace."
The Belarusian Defense Ministry also noted an increase in military activity in neighboring EU states. In particular, Poland has increased the number of security forces against the background of the appearance of a spontaneous two thousandth camp of Middle Eastern refugees on the Belarusian-Polish border. The Ministry of Defense of Belarus stated that Poland's decision to concentrate 23,000 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.
The head of the Belarusian Defense Ministry, Viktor Khrenin, said that the build-up of NATO forces at the borders of the republic and the strengthening of the military component of Poland can be regarded as "a set of measures to prepare for war." According to him, it seems that Poland wants to unleash a conflict by dragging the EU into it.
