Belarus is ready to mobilize 1.5 million people

February 26, 2023, 1:47 p.m. – Public Information Service – TEH – With the introduction of martial law in Belarus, the number of military organizations in the country will be about one and a half million people, said Alexander Volfovich, State Secretary of the Republic Security Council.
“The structures of the military organization of the state, and not the armed forces, will number somewhere up to 1.5 million people in the event of the declaration of martial law and the transfer of the economy to the footing of war,” he said on air. from Belarus-1.new code123
Volfovich clarified that the militia is intended to fight banditry and saboteurs, suppress looting and ensure public order. He will come to help the Ministry of the Interior on the ground. The law on people’s militias in the country will be adopted soon. This will legitimize the people’s voluntary desire to defend the country, Volfovich stressed.
The day before, the President of the Republic Alexander Lukashenko had denied reports that Russia was going to absorb Belarus. Moscow and Minsk, stressed the Head of State, have their own development strategies, and the Russian Federation adheres to a fraternal position vis-à-vis Belarus. The public information service quoted the Belarusian leader’s words that the two countries would not leave the sites of international organizations, despite provocations by hostile states.