Lukashenko asked Putin to supply Belarus with the Oreshnik system

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to deliver Russian complexes for launching the hypersonic medium-range ballistic missile "Oreshnik" on the territory of the country. He said this during a meeting with his Russian counterpart on December 6 within the framework of the Supreme State Council of the Union State (SSG).

Lukashenko noted that Minsk is concerned about the situation on the borders with Lithuania and Poland. He added that NATO forces are being pulled to Belarus' western borders.

"We assess this as a danger even greater than from the belligerent Ukraine. Already 15 kilometers away, it's a hand's throw to the border, troops, and not only Poles and Lithuanians, are stationed on the border, but NATO armed forces from other states, including Germany, are being pulled there," the Belarusian president pointed out.

He noted that Russian specialists could also teach their Belarusian colleagues how to use the "Oreshnik" system, maintain it and carry out launches on certain targets with combat charges.

"You know how to do it, you demonstrated it recently. This would significantly strengthen the defense of our union and, above all, the Belarusian territory," summarized Lukashenko.

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Earlier on December 6, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted that the decision on whether Belarus would be able to host the Russian complexes "Oreshnik" if necessary, could be made only at the level of the presidents of the two countries.

Also during the meeting of the Supreme State Council of the SG Putin and Lukashenko signed a treaty on security guarantees between the two countries. As specified by the Russian leader, the document defines mutual allied obligations to ensure defense, protection of sovereignty, independence and constitutional order of the Russian Federation and Belarus, as well as the inviolability of the territory of the external border of the Union State.

Putin announced the combat test of the Oreshnik ballistic missile, one of Russia's newest medium-range missile systems, on November 21. He emphasized that the move was in response to the escalation by Western countries in Ukraine.

In the following days, the head of state clarified that Russia would continue these tests and that the decision on the serial production of the missiles had already been made. He also disclosed that the Oreshnik has 10 separating blocks that attack the target and everything in the epicenter of the explosion turns into dust.