According to Ukrainian observers, during the Russian-Belarussian exercises "West-2017" military units and units carried out offensive operations, defeated the enemy in areas of concentration, at airfields and routes of nomination.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says Ukraine is ready to repulse the aggressor severely in case of its attempts to launch an offensive against the country, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Viktor Muzhenko has announced that Russia has recently increased its military presence on the Ukrainian border, having massed three divisions of motorized rifle troops capable of conducting rapid offensive operations.