This Friday, after signing a mutual agreement in Minsk on security guarantees, Russian President Vladimir Putin considered it “possible” a deployment in Belarus of Russian Orechnik missiles from the second half of 2025. These latest generation devices can carry a nuclear charge.
One more threat. Vladimir Putin on Friday deemed it “possible” a deployment in Belarus of latest generation Russian Orechnik missiles, which can carry a nuclear charge, from the second half of 2025, in the midst of renewed Russian-Western tensions.
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“I consider that the positioning of (Russian) weapons such as Oreshnik on the territory of Belarus is possible,” declared the Russian president alongside his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko, after signing a mutual agreement in Minsk on guarantees security.
Hitting thousands of miles away
“I think this will become possible in the second half of next year, when production of these weapons increases in Russia and these missiles enter service with the Russian strategic forces,” he said. “We will have set up serial production” and “at the same time, we will begin to deploy them on the territory of Belarus,” said the Russian president under the auspices of the presidential palace in Minsk, according to a broadcast on Russian television.
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The Russian head of state has boasted in recent days about the characteristics of his experimental Orechnik intermediate-range missile, a weapon that can carry a nuclear charge and strike thousands of kilometers away.
The Russian army used this missile for the first time on November 21 against a Ukrainian city, with Vladimir Putin presenting this attack as a response to recent Ukrainian strikes against Russian soil using American and British missiles, while threatening to directly hit the countries that arm kyiv.
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Threat to strike “decision-making centers” in kyiv
The master of the Kremlin also threatened to hit “decision-making centers” in kyiv with his powerful Orechnik missile. Concerning a possible deployment in Belarus of this weapon, “a certain number of technical questions must be resolved by specialists, in particular the determination of the minimum range, taking into account the priorities linked to security” of the country, he said. detailed Friday.
During a review of Russian nuclear doctrine at the end of September, Vladimir Putin assured that the Russian army would protect Belarus with its nuclear weapons “in the event of aggression”. During the summer of 2023, Russia deployed tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, its closest ally, which borders three NATO member countries (Lithuania, Latvia, Poland), as well as Ukraine.
