President: Neighbors spend billions on arming their armies, we must be ready

President: "You know the foreign policy agenda. You see and observe the aggressive rhetoric towards Belarus. Intelligence activities are conducted quite openly, almost brazenly: we periodically detect various provocations, violations of airspace. But that's not the main thing. The main thing is that our neighbors are spending billions on arming their armies."

"We must always be ready for a timely and adequate response if something happens. And the experience of modern armed conflicts shows that the most important role in conducting military operations is assigned to troop command and control."