Belarus dismisses 'fake' reports of dispatching column of tanks toward Ukraine

MINSK. March 1 (Interfax) - Belarus' defense ministry has denied reports about a column of 300 tanks moving toward Ukraine.

"Information spread by certain Ukrainian media outlets about a column of 300 tanks supposedly moving in the direction of Ukraine is just another fake [news]," the ministry said on Tuesday.

Belarus simply does not have such units called "tank armies" and "even schoolchildren know" this, it said.