MINSK, May 27. /TASS/. Establishing the Belarusian Army Operational Command in the country’s south on the border with Ukraine envisages creating the corresponding group of forces, Head of the republic’s Defense Ministry Department for International Military Cooperation Valery Revenko said on Friday.
"Creating the SOC [Southern Operational Command] is a comprehensive task of responding to security threats arising in the southern direction that envisages setting up the corresponding group of forces," the defense official said.
The republic’s Western, North-Western and Southern Operational Commands are army command centers that ensure military security in the corresponding operational areas, Revenko explained.
"The army command centers exercise command and control of subordinate military units and formations (from the battalion down to the lower level). Correspondingly, creating the Southern Army Operational Command stipulates setting up not only the military command center but also some military units and formations in the relevant armed services and branches," the Belarusian defense official explained.
At a Defense Ministry meeting on May 26, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko highlighted the need to immediately set up an Army Operational Command in the southern direction.