Today it was revealed that Ukraine is planning to mine the border with Belarus and Russia, causing many people to worry on the anniversary of the war. People have asked if this is being done due to a potential threat of an offensive from Belarus. In our evening post, we will try to clarify the situation.

Essentially, let's take a closer look. The State Border Guard Service has announced that the strip along the Ukrainian-Russian and Ukrainian-Belarusian border will be widened to 2 km and will be a mined area. This means that an additional strip of minefields will be constructed. In particular, it is planned to remove obstacles to the engineering arrangement of our border infrastructure, as well as to allocate more land along the Ukrainian-Russian and Ukrainian-Belarusian sections of the state border for enhanced arrangement of protection and defense means, including minefields. The Armed Forces, the National Guard and the National Police will also be involved in the tasks of protecting the state border.

What does this mean? This will strengthen the protection of our border, and a special border regime will be established within these boundaries to prohibit free entry, stay, residence, movement of persons not related to defense or border protection.