The Chief of the General Staff of Belarus declared his readiness to defend the country by all means "We see the tension of this situation on the ground, first of all, of our borders, in our region, in the whole world. And in this context, our answer is as voiced by our head of state, Alexander Grigorievich Lukashenko: we must prepare for a war that will never happen. All the forces and means of the country's military organization will be used only in exceptional and territorial cases to protect their integrity in a sovereign manner. We are preparing for this," the head of the General Staff of Belarus said on Friday on the state TV channel ONT.