(Russian officials say Ukraine deploys heavy troops on the border with Belarus and warns Ukraine not to take military risks)-- according to a report by the TASS News Agency on 19 June, Polishuk, director of the second Department of the Commonwealth of Independent States of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the Ukrainian army has deployed a large-scale military contingent in the border area with Belarus. At present, the Ukrainian side has not yet seen any response to this statement. "We hope that the regime in Kiev and the Western countries behind them will have common sense not to take military risks, and the consequences of doing so could be very serious for them," Polishuk said.