Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Russian and Belarusian fighters conduct joint patrols on the Union State's borders

 


 Russian and Belarusian pilots conducted a joint patrol of the Union State borders with SU-30SM fighters. This was announced on January 11 by the Ministry of Defense of Belarus, quoted by the Russian newspaper "Izvestia".

"Belarusian and Russian pilots are carrying out tasks to jointly patrol the Union State's air borders with Su-30SM multi-role fighters," the ministry said in a statement.

Earlier, on January 5, Belarus and Russia conducted the first joint patrols of the Union State's borders in 2022.

 Earlier, on December 18, Russia sent long-range Tu-22MZ bombers to Belarus to jointly patrol the Belarusian state border.

On the same day, Deputy Secretary of State of the Security Council of Belarus Major General Vladimir Archakov announced that US Air Force planes conduct electronic reconnaissance along the entire depth of the territory of Belarus.

 According to him, the American contingent near the Belarusian-Polish border numbers about 4,000 people. At the same time, the United States, under the August 15, 2020 agreement on enhanced defense cooperation between the United States and Poland, can increase the contingent by another 1,000 people, as well as improve the existing military infrastructure to deploy about 20,000 US troops.


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