What happened? On Wednesday, June 15, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky convened a meeting of the high command (extraordinary organ of Ukraine's top military leadership) on the issue of a possible re-invasion by belarus.
Source. This was stated by the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov in the program “Hovoryt Velykyi Lviv” on the Lviv TV channel NTA.
Details. According to him, “in addition to the National Security and Defense Council, there is a high command… Yesterday the President convened a meeting, and the issue of belarus was discussed.”
All the bodies involved in that issue gave their assessments – what was happening there, in what condition was the army of belarus, how many military troops were there, what were their plans.” Danilov noted that as a result there was a special order – the alert would be checked in four areas of the state in case “if the challenges for Ukraine are repeated."
The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council did not specify in which areas the checking will be conducted. belarus is bordered by 5 regions of Ukraine: Chernihiv, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Rivne and Volyn.
Background. It will be recalled that as of the evening of June 16, certain units of the belarusian Armed Forces continued to carry out tasks on covering the belarusian-Ukrainian border. Engineering equipment for positions in the border areas of the Brest region was underway. In the period from 14 to 16 June, a command and staff exercise was conducted with the military units of the rear support of the Armed Forces of belarus.