The Belarusian military will receive the 9K720 Iskander guided missile systems and the S-400 Triumf air defense systems supplied by Russia, the Belarusian Defense Ministry said on Friday
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 07th October, 2022) The Belarusian military will receive the 9K720 Iskander guided missile systems and the S-400 Triumf air defense systems supplied by Russia, the Belarusian Defense Ministry said on Friday.
"The defense minister (Viktor Khrenin) has announced the incoming delivery of new equipment, which includes the Iskander guided missile systems and the S-400 air defense systems. The demonstration of the unmanned combat systems will take place in October," the ministry said on Telegram.
In June, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, that Russia was ready to modernize the Belarusian fleet of Su-25 attack aircraft with complexes capable of carrying various types of weapons, and would supply the country with the Iskander-M nuclear-capable ballistic missile systems over the next several months.
In response, a senior US Defense Department official said that Washington took "seriously" Russia's alleged threat to use nuclear weapons and criticized President Putin for talking about deploying nuclear missiles in Belarus. Meanwhile, Poland said earlier this week that it had requested for US nuclear weapons to be deployed on its territory, though the White House denied receiving such request.
