“Yesterday at the NSDC we spoke, in particular, about the territorial defense units.
And the Minister of Defense also supported this idea, and the President supported that in these areas (on the border with Belarus) to conduct exercises of territorial defense.
I instructed the police to raise all the public formations that are in these territories.
They have the right to carry traumatic weapons, ”RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
He noted that these people should be called to the exercises, which are to take place in the coming month near the Ukrainian-Belarusian border.
Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, in a conversation with Lithuanian leader Gitanas Nauseda, promised to adequately respond to the situation with migrants at the borders.