“The situation is tense, we don’t know what to expect tomorrow,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

Lappo said that about 17 thousand military personnel are concentrated on the border with Belarus from Ukraine.

Earlier, the General Staff of Belarus announced the readiness of the Belarusian Armed Forces to cover operational areas near the border with Ukraine.

In December, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Minsk, where he discussed with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko the creation of a single defense space.