MINSK, 18 September (BelTA) – Up to 40 reconnaissance flights are registered along Belarusian borders every week, BelTA learned from Chief of the Air Force and Air Defense Command of Belarus’ Armed Forces Andrei Lukyanovich after a session of the Air Defense Coordinating Committee under the Defense Ministers Council of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Andrei Lukyanovich said: “A complicated situation is evolving around our state. Particularly in the western direction. Primarily due to intensive militarization of the European continent.”
The officer drew attention to a large number of reconnaissance aviation units, tactical and strategic aviation units as well as drones. “Every week we register up to 40 flights of reconnaissance aviation as part of the joint regional air defense system. So far this year we’ve registered about 1,400 flights along our borders, including light aircraft flights from the territory of Poland and the Baltic states. We’ve also registered five violations of the state border of the Union State of Belarus and Russia. The 15km zone has been violated. Our duty units were scrambled. They went on patrol in special cases. All of it took place as part of an adequate response to the evolving situation,” he stressed.
Andrei Lukyanovich remarked that a joint computer-assisted command and staff exercise has been going on in Belarus since yesterday. Results of combat work of the joint regional air defense system are modelled as part of the exercise.
“Bilateral and multilateral meetings have been held with commanding officers. We already have positive results, which were at the heart of today’s session. I am talking about the advancement of military technology cooperation with Russia and about the development of the combat training centers that are located in Belarus, for the sake of air defense of the Air Force and Air Defense Command,” the officer stressed.
BelTA reported earlier that the 59th session of the Air Defense Coordinating Committee under the CIS Defense Ministers Council took place in Minsk.
Participants of the session discussed matters relating to the improvement of the joint air defense system of the CIS member states and the enhancement of bilateral and multilateral military cooperation in air defense.
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