“The exercises presented to our neighbors, our western partners, our closest allies the absolute readiness of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus, territorial formations of Belarus, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, with the participation of a unit that arrived from Kazakhstan,” Mezentseva quoted TASS as saying.
According to him, "no one doubts the readiness to protect the borders of the Union State, including after these exercises."
“I believe that there were no special doubts, but it is important to do everything using political methods, diplomatic practice, economic interaction, the scale and potential of public diplomacy, so that there is never a need to prove the power of the Armed Forces of Russia and the Armed Forces of Belarus in protecting the borders and there was no state - neither today, nor tomorrow, nor in the distant future.
Never in the future, ”he said.
Earlier it was reported that Russian leader Vladimir Putin, during a working trip to the Nizhny Novgorod region, will visit the main stage of the Russian-Belarusian exercises "West-2021" at the Mulino training ground.