By John Owen Nwachukwu Russia has pledged to deliver nuclear-capable Iskander-M missiles to its ally Belarus. Russia’s 24 Febr...
By John Owen Nwachukwu
Russia has pledged to deliver nuclear-capable Iskander-M
missiles to its ally Belarus.
Russia’s 24 February invasion of Ukraine included Russian
armoured columns sent in from Belarus.
Iskander missiles have been deployed previously in
Kaliningrad, a small Russian Baltic territory between NATO members, Lithuania
and Poland. They have a range of up to 500km (300 miles).
Russian President Vladimir Putin made the promise when he
met his Belarusian ally Alexander Lukashenko in St Petersburg on Saturday.
Putin told President Lukashenko “in the next few months
we’ll give Belarus tactical Iskander-M missile complexes, which can fire
ballistic and cruise missiles, both conventional and nuclear types”, Russian
RBC news reports.
The Belarusian President also asked Russia to make his
country’s warplanes nuclear-capable, and the Russian leader further promised
that Belarusian Su-25 fighter jets would be upgraded.
Russian cruise missiles were also fired from ships in the
Black Sea on Saturday, Ukraine’s military said.
Ukraine also reported a heavy rocket strike on Desna, a
village near Chernihiv in the north.
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