President Putin: Russian aviation conducts scheduled exercises with Belarusian counterparts , said that strategic aviation cannot do anything to resolve such crises. He announced this to the host of the program “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin “to Pavel Zarubin, according to the Telegram channel Vesti.ru.
” We are conducting planned exercises with our Belarusian colleagues. Here our western partners conduct exercises on a regular and irregular basis, unscheduled, of various kinds. We do it too. And our strategic aviation also regularly flies along its patrol routes, “the president said.
Putin also named the reasons for the migration crisis in Europe. According to the Russian leader, the situation on the Belarusian-Polish border is conditioned by military and economic factors.
Since the beginning of 2021, people have begun to flock to the border of Belarus with Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. The crisis escalated sharply on November 8 after several thousand people approached the Polish border from the Belarusian side. On November 13, about 100 migrants broke into Poland. They found themselves near a barbed fence set up by the Polish side.