"We carried out an official investigation because it did not happen in Sweden, but in its economic zone. It was carried out in a rather traditional way, and they (the investigators) concluded that they could not blame anyone. They did not have a case. So that it’s closed to us,” Kristersson told TIME magazine.

“After our specific work, the Ukrainians withdrew their armed forces and additional troops, which they [previously] transferred to our border, from the border and generally withdrew from the Belarusian-Ukrainian border zone,” the agency quoted the president as saying. “Right now we don’t have any complications with the Ukrainians, and I hope there won’t be any,” Lukashenko added.

"Despite the fact that formally the document is about containment, it is likely to aggravate tensions," Asmolov said. "In essence, it's about the return of permanent stationing nuclear weapons in the Korean Peninsula and the American nuclear 'umbrella' over South Korea."

"Historians will wonder whether the two biggest mistakes of the Biden presidency — lawfare against Trump and war in Ukraine — were the result of senile belligerence," he wrote.

"Under the decision of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, based on the conclusions and assessment of the situation, border guards continue to perform tasks in a reinforced mode," Molostov was quoted as saying by the Belta news agency.

"The ISIS terrorists ... immediately after the sorrowful incident [the helicopter crash] ... in May doubled down on their efforts to infiltrate the country, carry out terrorist acts at funerals and memorial ceremonies for the deceased ... and then to carry out sabotage during the two rounds of elections across the country," the ministry said in a statement.