Belarus will agree to resume operations at the Berastavitsa-Bobrowniki and Bruzhi-Kuznica border crossing points on the Belarusian-Polish border only when it is ready to do so "in terms of infrastructure, personnel, and security," said Belarusian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ruslan Varankou. Political scientist Alina Kharysava, commenting to Belsat, believes that such rhetoric from Minsk is part of hybrid pressure on its neighbors: the regime is trying to show that it is dictating the terms and controlling the agenda.