“The Foreign Ministry sent a note to the Russian side with a request to clarify the situation and clarify whether the border crossing procedure has really been changed,” TUT.by quotes the words of the official representative of the Belarusian foreign diplomatic department Anatoly Glaz.

It is noted that on the Russian-Belarusian border on the E30 / M1 highway, queues of cars and trucks have formed. 

According to the portal, the border department of the FSB of Russia in the Smolensk region said that they were registering data on Belarusians at the entrance and exit.

Earlier, the State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus, Andrei Ravkov, said that the border committee of the republic would strengthen operational coverage of the state border, including with Russia.