MINSK. May 24 (Interfax) - A new special taskforce to fight sabotage and reconnaissance groups in border areas has been set up in Belarus, Belarusian Interior Minister Ivan Kubrakov said on Wednesday.
"A new special subdivision to fight sabotage and reconnaissance groups has been created as part of the Internal Troops of the Interior Ministry and has now been deployed," Kubrakov said, as quoted by the ministry's press service.
"Our personnel are on duty today, guarding public order in border areas, not only near the border with Ukraine, but along the border perimeter as a whole. We are responding to all challenges and threats, and any incoming information is being double-checked without delay," he said.
The interior minister also revealed that his ministry has set up a special taskforce to ensure security at the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant (NPP).
"In order to ensure the security of the Ostrovets-based NPP, a special subdivision of Internal Troops has been set up. It is stationed in the city. All [necessary] measures have been taken, including in technical terms. Every nuance has been taken into consideration. We have analyzed terror attacks committed abroad and other countries' best practices," he said.
The NPP's security "will be ensured both on the ground and in the air," he said.
Speaking of the security of strategic facilities in general, Kubrakov stressed that "this area is under special control." "We can see that terrorist acts being committed outside of our country target exactly such facilities, along with socially important ones, including schools and kindergartens. And we are doing everything today to protect them," he said.