Belarus wants to host at least 10 Oreshnik systems – Lukashenko

Minsk is ready to accommodate even more new missiles, should Moscow desire to deploy them, the Belarusian president has said

Belarus wants to host at least 10 new Russian Oreshnik medium-range hypersonic missile systems, the country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, has said.

Lukashenko made the remarks on Thursday on the sidelines of the informal summit of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) leaders underway at the Igora resort complex near St. Petersburg. During the event, Lukashenko and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held closed-doors talks that lasted for an hour and a half.

”I think it will be ten for now, and then we’ll see. If Russians want to deploy more, we will host more,” Lukashenko told reporters when asked how many of the state-of-art systems he would like to host.

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