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War in Ukraine: Belarus has deployed Russian S-400 and Iskander missiles on its territory

2022-12-21T11:29:36.653Z


These air defense missiles and ballistic missiles were supplied by Russia. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Belarus has regularly communicated on the movement of its troops on the border with Ukraine, its new equipment, or its ever-increasing military cooperation with Moscow, waving the threat of going to war with its Russian ally. To discover Follow information on the war in Ukraine with the Figaro application " Today we deployed the S-400 missil


Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Belarus has regularly communicated on the movement of its troops on the border with Ukraine, its new equipment, or its ever-increasing military cooperation with Moscow, waving the threat of going to war with its Russian ally.

To discover

  • Follow information on the war in Ukraine with the Figaro application

"

Today we deployed the S-400 missile systems and, above all, the Iskander system that you handed over to us

," Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said during Vladimir Putin's visit to Minsk on Monday, December 19, according to the Russian news agency

Tass

.

The S-400 are anti-aircraft missiles, modernized version of the S-300 of the Soviet era.

Iskander missiles are short and medium range ballistic missiles used by Russia in Ukraine.

They can carry conventional but also nuclear charges.

Alexander Lukashenko also announced that his army was training crews with the Russians for planes carrying nuclear charges.

With the Russians, we are training crews capable of flying aircraft that carry these specific payloads

,” he said.

It is not a threat to anyone

,” added the head of state, still according to Tass, but “

we must secure the Belarusian state

”.

Read alsoKiev fears that Putin will enlist Belarus for a future attack

Tactical maneuvers in Belarus

The Russian army said on Monday it would take part in

"tactical"

maneuvers in Belarus, after the announcement in October of the formation of a joint force of several thousand men.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, however, denied that Vladimir Putin went to Belarus to convince Minsk to directly participate in the conflict in Ukraine, calling the allegations

"stupid"

and

"baseless".

Russian President Vladimir Putin assured him on Monday that Russia

“has no interest”

in absorbing its closest ally, very dependent on Moscow for gas and oil deliveries:

“Russia has no interest in absorb anyone.

This n'

.

The Ukrainian authorities nevertheless say they fear in the first months of 2023 the possibility of a Russian offensive on kyiv which would be launched from Belarusian territory, repeating the scenario of the start of the invasion on February 24.

Source: lefigaro

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