The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has refuted the statements by the Belarusian leadership alleging that militants were prepared on the territory of Ukraine.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry in a comment issued on Wednesday by its press service notes that such statements "are provocative and harmful to the development of good neighborly relations between Ukraine and Belarus."

"We would like to stress that it is Belarus' partner in the Union State - the Russian Federation – which as part of its hybrid aggression set up training camps for mercenaries and militants both on its territory and in the occupied parts of Ukraine. Through supporting and exporting terrorism, Russia is purposefully undermining stability and security in the region, which includes both Ukraine and Belarus," the comment reads.

Kyiv also said that Ukraine handed over to the UN International Court of Justice abundant evidence of support and financing of terrorism by Russia in the occupied territory of Ukraine.

"We are ready for close international cooperation in countering any manifestations of terrorism, including together with Belarus," the comment said.

As reported, on March 21, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said several dozen militants have been detained on suspicion of plotting armed acts of provocation, some of them were trained in Ukraine. "We have already detained several dozen people drilling with weapons in camps. By the way, one of those camps was situated in the area of Bobruisk and Osipovichi. The other camps were located in Ukraine [and], it seems to me, in Lithuania or Poland - I won't insist on this, but somewhere there. The money was coming here via Poland and Lithuania. Just a few hours ago, we apprehended a couple of dozen militants plotting an armed provocation," the BelTA state-run news agency quoted Lukashenko as saying during a working trip to the Mogilyov region.