“At yesterday’s meeting, as part of adjusting the issues of clarifying the development of the armed forces, the commander-in-chief was given the task, among other things, of creating a people’s militia in our country,” the ministry’s press service quotes him in his Telegram.

According to him, the country has both people and weapons for this.

Earlier, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko ordered the immediate creation of an operational command of the Armed Forces in the southern direction.