Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy inspected the frontier with Belarus and Poland Wednesday, and he thanked Ukrainian border guards for their defense of the country since Russia's invasion.
MORE: The president posted video footage on the Telegram messaging app that showed him meeting border guards in woodland area with barbed-wire fencing beside a river in the Volyn region of northwestern Ukraine.
"I would first of all like to thank you, dear border guards, for the protection of our state in Bakhmut. I know how firmly you stood there, holding Bakhmut," he said, referring to the eastern Ukrainian city where fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces has been intense for months.
Zelenskyy said after discussing border protection measures at a meeting in January that Ukraine must "be ready" at the frontier with Belarus.
Russia used Belarus as a launch pad for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year, and Russian President Vladimir Putin said last month that Russia would station tactical nuclear weapons on its close ally's territory.
(Reuters)
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