Belarus and the Russian Federation have agreed on the deployment of a "joint regional grouping of troops", rosZMI reports.
"Lukashenko and Putin agreed on the deployment of a joint regional grouping of troops," rosZMI writes.
"In connection with the "aggravation on the western borders of the Union State", we agreed on the deployment of the regional grouping of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus," - rosZMI quoted Oleksandr Lukashenko as saying.
He stated that "Belarusian troops will form the basis of the Belarusian-Russian regional grouping of troops." And that its formation "has already begun, it has been forming for about two days."