13.07.2024, Minsk.
Belarusian Defense Ministry immediately begins the withdrawal of troops located on the border with Ukraine to the places of their permanent deployment, the head of the defense ministry Viktor Khrenin said on July 13, the ministry’s press service wrote on its Telegram channel.
“We see that the tension in the southern operational direction is subsiding, so following the results of today’s meeting, the President instructed the grouping of reinforcement troops of the southern operational direction, the basis of which are special operations forces, to withdraw from the border zone and return to the places of their permanent deployment. We immediately begin to fulfill this task,” the press service quoted the Minister as saying.
According to Khrenin, only “minor duty forces and means for monitoring the situation will be on the southern border.”
Earlier, the Belarusian authorities recorded an increase in military units on the side of Ukraine along the Belarusian border. Belarus, observing this, decided to strengthen the southern border, informed the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Belarus.
On July 13, President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko, attending a military meeting in the Brest Region in the south of the country, said that Ukraine had removed the accumulation of its troops from the border with Belarus. The republic’s president also instructed, in turn, to withdraw troops from the southern borders to places of permanent military deployment.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
