MINSK. Feb 20 (Interfax) - The West is implementing a largescale program to prepare the future theater of operations in Poland and the Baltic countries, and surveillance of Belarus is intensifying, Belarusian State Security Committee Chairman Ivan Tertel said.
"The West's intentions are turning into practical plans, documentary evidence of which is regularly conveyed to the head of state. An unprecedented increase in the production of weapons, hardware and ammunition in the leading Western nations is being observed. Largescale programs are being implemented in Poland and the Baltic countries to prepare the future theater of operations," the Belarusian state-run news agency BelTA quoted Tertel as saying at an expanded security meeting chaired by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk on Tuesday.
"Lateral roads and airfields are being repaired for the rapid deployment of large contingents from Germany and other NATO countries to the Polish, Lithuanian and Latvian regions bordering Belarus. The Polish Armed Forces are carrying out an extensive reorganization of the group of forces in the Belarusian sector, and infrastructure is being built in restricted areas of Lithuania and Latvia for deploying military units from NATO member states," Tertel said.
Minsk is seeing increasing surveillance of Belarus, he said.
"The committee is recording an unprecedented level of every kind of surveillance of Belarus. Space surveillance systems capture online images of the locations of law enforcement and military personnel, arms and military hardware depots, [and] airfields and railroad lines practically every day," Tertel said.