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At the time, it was based at a reequipped school building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Jelsk station\u2019s area of responsibility consists of a 25-kilometer section along the border with Ukraine. Border guards are equipped with unmanned aerial vehicles, radiation measuring devices, alarms and vehicles, including motorcycles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, the Rosa Luxemburg Unit apprehended 10 trespassers. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three months earlier, the State Border Committee opened the Asarevi\u010dy border patrol station in the Brahin district run by the Homiel Border Guard Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On June 29, Committee Chairman Kanstancin Mo\u0142asta\u016d said that Belarus would put into operation six new border patrol stations with cantonments by the end of the year. The Asarevi\u010dy, he said, was the third one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On November 4 and 9, the committee opened two stations at the border with Lithuania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 20, the Homiel Border Guard Group opened the Siamiona\u016dka station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 11, the committee announced the opening of the Naro\u016dla station at the Ukrainian border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 1,084.2-km-long Belarusian-Ukrainian border crosses the Chernobyl exclusion zone and covers several important rivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale war against Ukraine, in which the Belarusian government sided with the Kremlin. Russian troops launched an offensive on Kyiv from Belarus. After liberating northern Ukraine, Kyiv\u2019s troops have started mining border areas and building fortifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/ru\/news\/154779\/\">Belarus opens another border patrol station near Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 4,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;The Belarusian State Border Committee held an opening ceremony on December 4 for a renovated border patrol station in Jelsk, Homiel region. The station, under the command of the Mazyr Border Detachment, will host the Rosa Luxemburg Unit, which started patrolling the Belarusian-Ukrainian border in July 2014. 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