The supply of defense equipment will also “possibly” include S-400 anti-aircraft systems, the Belarusian head of state said.
The S-400 is a state-of-the-art anti-aircraft defense system, capable of shooting down air targets at a distance of 250 kilometers and non-strategic ballistic missiles at 60 kilometers.
“In the near future … the Russian Federation will supply us … dozens of aircraft, dozens of helicopters and the most important air defense weapons. Perhaps even S-400s,” Lukashenko said.
“We really need them. We have already talked about it,” with Russia, he added, although he declined to offer details about the amounts of money or the number of weapons that his main ally will supply to Minsk amid the deep crisis that the country is going through. a year after the fraudulent presidential elections.
Nor did he rule out more orders to Russia if needs were detected after the Russian-Belarusian exercises Zapad-2021 (West) that will be held from September 10 to 16 and in which 12,800 soldiers will participate, 2,500 of which will be Russians and the rest Belarusians. .
