President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has instructed the relevant state bodies to check readiness for a possible re-invasion of Russian troops from Belarus in four regions of Ukraine, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said.

"As for the direction from Belarus: I want to inform you that in addition to the NSDC, there is the Supreme Commander-in-chief's rate. Yesterday there was a meeting. They [meetings] take place, we do not make them public when they take place ... the issue of Belarus was discussed at the meeting yesterday. All our bodies involved in this gave an assessment – what is happening there [in Belarus], what state the Belarusian army is in today, how many Russian military are there, what plans. All this is under the control of our president," Danilov said on the air of the program The Great Lviv is Speaking on Thursday.

"As a result, there is an instruction [from the president]. Now there will be a check in four areas of the state of preparation, if there are repeated calls for our country [from Belarus], " he added. At the same time, the NSDC secretary did not specify the name of specific areas.