MINSK. May 15 (Interfax) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has been informed that the country's Armed Forces were placed on heightened alert following incidents in Russia's Bryansk region.
"Three days have passed since those events near us, I mean in the Bryansk region, when four aircraft were shot down. We had to react to that. We - our forces - have been on heightened alert since then," the BelTA state-run news agency quoted Lukashenko as saying during a visit to the central command post of the Air Force and Air Defense Force.
"I want to know what the situation around the country is now, and, naturally, what the directions and prospects of development of this situation are, in a concise manner, without any scaremongering, what is happening now and what we are expecting in the short term," he said.