The Foreign Ministry told about the West's reaction to Russia's plans to deploy Oreshnik in Belarus

Russia assumed that the West had heard the signal of the Russian Federation in connection with plans to transfer the new missile system "Oreshnik" to Belarus. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin said on December 9.

"[The West] certainly heard it, because the signal given on the instructions of the Russian President [Vladimir Putin] in the form of a test combat use of this complex is more than clear, more than meaningful and informative," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

According to him, this signal was not just recorded by the Western side, but taken very seriously.

Strip it down to "Oreshnik": Putin supported the adoption of the missile system into service

At a meeting with the developers, the president called this complex a guarantor of Russia's security

Earlier, December 6, the head of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to deliver Russian complexes for the launch of "Oreshnik" on the territory of the country. Putin, in turn, allowed the deployment of the corresponding complex on the territory of the republic in the second half of 2025.

December 7, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Belarusian Armed Forces Sergei Lagodiuk said that the decision to deploy the Russian complex "Oreshnik" in Belarus was taken against the background of the U.S. and German position on the deployment of medium-range missiles in Europe.

Putin announced the combat test of the Oreshnik ballistic missile, one of Russia's newest medium-range missile systems, on Nov. 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 specified that Russia would continue these tests and that the decision on the serial production of the missiles had already been made.