 Ukraine announces deployment of troops with combat experience to Belarusian border. Kiev has deployed military units consisting of troops with combat experience to Ukraine's border with Belarus, Ukrainian Joint Forces Commander Sergei Neyev announced following a visit to the country's Volin region. I have met with those on duty there. The guys returned earlier from a combat mission in the east of Ukraine. They have combat experience and based on their combat experience, they are expected to figure out what to do and how to do it. Depending on their defensive positions, when the threat level increases. The situation is calm and under control at the moment, he said. The Ukrainian-Belarussian border is 1,084 km long. Ukrainian State Border Service spokesman Andry Demchenko has repeatedly said that the border situation remains calm there. On June 30th, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky handed down instructions to reinforce troops stationed along the Belarusian border. In July 10th, Neyev said that the military was strengthening positions and engineering barriers in the Volin, Zitomir and Rovno regions, actively laying land mines on the approaches to the positions. Earlier, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia have reinforced their borders with Warsaw, sending some 10,000 military troops to its frontier with Belarus.