Lukashenko asked Putin to deploy Oreshnik missile system in Belarus
Following the results of today’s Supreme State Council meeting in Minsk, President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to deploy a new Oreshnik missile system on the territory of Belarus
After the signing ceremony of interstate agreements, Aleksandr Lukashenko spoke about the tense situation on the western border of Belarus and the Union State, “We are very concerned about the situation in Western Europe and especially on our borders – especially from the side of Poland and Lithuania, our neighbouring countries. We assess this as an even greater danger than from the side of belligerent Ukraine. Troops are already stationed 15km away from the border, just a stone's throw from our territory. These are not only of Poles and Lithuanians: NATO's armed forces from other countries, including Germany, are being deployed there. That is, the situation is very tense. Poland spends huge resources on weaponry. Well, if they want to live in peace with us, as they claim, then why are they spending billions of Dollars on weapons? In short, we consider it very alarming. This is actually a threat to our joint grouping of the armed forces.”
The President noted that Russia recently successfully launched the latest ballistic missile, Oreshnik, which had a certain impact on our opponents in the West. On the side-lines of the recent CSTO summit in Astana, Aleksandr Lukashenko, as he said, jokingly turned the topic of Belarus' readiness to adopt the latest Russian missile system Oreshnik into service, “But what kind of joke could there be when it came to new weapons. Don't take this as some kind of arrogance. I would like to publicly ask you to deploy new weapons – primarily, Oreshnik – on the territory of Belarus. This would seriously cool down some heads that are ready to fight against Belarus – which means against Russia as well – on the territory of Belarus. We have certain places where we can deploy these weapons, and there is only one condition: the targets for these weapons will be determined by the military-political leadership of Belarus. This would significantly strengthen the defence of our Union State and, above all, the Belarusian territory.”
According to Aleksandr Lukashenko, Oreshnik is not a nuclear weapon, but it is very effective, comparable in power to the nuclear one, but at the same time containing no harmful substances and entailing no radiation pollution of territories.
The President of Belarus also asked his Russian counterpart that Russian specialists maintain these weapons at first, while the Belarusian military will be trained in their use.
“Once again, I ask you to consider [this request]. This would be a good support for the Belarusian people," Aleksandr Lukashenko said.
