Belarus received the Iskander-M missile system. On April 4, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced this at a conference call with the leadership of the Armed Forces.
Since April 3, the Belarusian military have been learning to work with the complex, which Russia transferred to Belarus. Training takes place at one of the Russian training grounds. It is noted that “Iskander-M” can use, among other things, missiles “in a nuclear version.”
Now, nuclear-armed missiles will be able to be used by Belarusian attack aircraft. Shoigu stressed that in this way the Union State plans to defend its security.
Iskander is a family of Russian tactical missile systems: Iskander, Iskander-M, Iskander-K, Iskander-E. The main purpose of missile systems is to destroy enemy air defense and missile defense systems (air defense and missile defense), as well as important objects covered by them, at ranges up to 500 km.
Earlier, on April 4, Belarusian crews of Iskander-M operational-tactical missile systems (OTRK) went to the Russian Federation for their practical training, within which they plan to complete a full training cycle at one of the training grounds of the Russian Armed Forces.
Prior to that, on March 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow and Minsk had agreed to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus without violating the non-proliferation regime. Then he stressed that Russia is not transferring its nuclear weapons to Belarus, but is doing what the United States has been doing for a decade.
At the end of February, Colonel Valery Revenko, Assistant Minister of Defense of Belarus for International Military Cooperation, said that Minsk assesses the situation around the country as a crisis, predicting the presence of direct threats to military security.
He stressed that a significant grouping of the Ukrainian army is concentrated near the Belarusian-Ukrainian section of the state border.
