National security officials from Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland will consider Russian threats from Belarus during a meeting in Vilnius on May 31, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said.
"Today it is Russia that is interested that the current developments around Belarus prevail. This is a challenge for us. This is a major challenge to us. And therefore I've been instructed by President Volodymyr Zelensky to go to Vilnius for a meeting of the five national security and defense councils' secretaries," Danilov told the Savik Shuster's Freedom of Speech panel show, an UNIAN correspondent reports.
The official specified that he would meet in Vilnius with his counterparts from the three Baltic countries and Poland.
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