“In the event of further violations of the state border, the Belarusian border guards will act extremely harshly,” BelTA quotes Pavlov as saying in Telegram.

Earlier, Belarusian border guards reported that a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter violated the state border with Belarus during an exercise near the Novaya Rudnya checkpoint.

Later, the military attaché at the Ukrainian embassy in the republic was summoned to the department of international military cooperation of the Ministry of Defense of Belarus to hand over a note in connection with this incident.