JAKARTA – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Russia’s Orestnik missile system would not remain static after being placed on combat duty in his country in December.
“We will not reveal any details. This is a mobile complex; it will never live in one place,” he said regarding the missile system made by Russia.
“This system will be placed in a specific location for patrols and, if necessary, attack from a certain direction,” said President Lukashenko.
He noted that the United States still claims to have no accurate information on the whereabouts or absence of Russian tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.
“The United States still claims they don’t know if we have a tactical nuclear weapon or not. All right, let them think what they want. We have warned them. We don’t say how much, where, how. That’s our business. They are in a safe place,” he stressed.
The Belarusian leader warned the weapon had been “repaired” after being brought to Russia, repaired, and returned with the latest modernization.
“We cannot reveal all of this, not only for our people, but also for those abroad,” he said.
President Lukashenko has repeatedly expressed his decision to place nuclear weapons in Belarus and plans to place the Orestnik missile are driven by national and defense security considerations.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 25, 2023 announced at Minsk’s request Moscow would place its tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, similar to what the US has been doing for years in its allied territory.
On April 25, 2024, Lukashenko announced that dozens of nuclear munitions were already in Belarus. Under a security guarantee agreement within the framework of the United States, which took effect on March 13, 2025, following the exchange of ratification instruments, both sides considered Russia’s nuclear weapons an important factor in preventing nuclear and conventional military conflicts, as well as a means of prevention.
Last November, President Putin announced Russia had successfully launched an attack on Ukriana’s military facility in Dnipro using a new hypersonic ballistic missile called “Oreshnik”.
President Putin said the new missile launched by Russia into Ukraine had speeds up to Mach 10, something he considered impossible to intercept by the United States defense system in Europe.
“Oreshnik attacks the target at a speed of Mach 10, or 2.5 to 3 kilometers per second,” said President Putin.
Confirming that Oreshnik was not a modernized Soviet Union missile, President Putin in December last year revealed the possibility of deploying the missile in Belarus.
“Regarding the possibility of a gun title that, frankly, is tough like Oreshnik in Belarus, as today we have signed an agreement on security guarantees by using all available powers and facilities, I consider deploying systems such as Oreshnik in the territory of the Republic of Belarus to be viable,” President Putin said. , quoted from Reuters.
“I think this will be possible in the second half of next year, along with the increasing production of this system series in Russia and when this missile system enters service with Russian strategic power,” he added.
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