“That is, the security department at the facilities is working in an enhanced mode,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.

In particular, Shepelev noted that measures have been strengthened at the facilities of the oil refining and gas industries, as well as at production facilities.

Earlier, the head of the State Border Committee of Belarus, Anatoly Lappo, announced the readiness of Minsk to give an adequate response in case of a provocation from Ukraine.

The representative of the State Border Service of Ukraine Andriy Demchenko said that the Ukrainian military is actively mining the territory near the Ukrainian-Belarusian border.