Russia launches its most terrifying weapon to Belarus

Russia's Oreshnik hypersonic medium-range missile system will be deployed in Belarus under a previous agreement between the leaders of the two countries.

Russia's Oreshnik medium-range hypersonic missile system. (Source: NEWSINFO.RU)

On February 3, TASS news agency quoted Alexey Polishchuk, Director of the Department for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) of the Russian Foreign Ministry , as saying: "In accordance with the allied obligations enshrined in the Federal Security Concept and the Interstate Bilateral Agreement on Security Assurances 2024, Moscow is ready to provide Minsk with the necessary assistance and take steps to protect the common defense space."

Mr. Polishchuk stressed that, in this context and according to the agreement between the Presidents of the two countries, "Russian Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missiles will also be deployed in Belarus."

In late January, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko announced that the Oreshnik hypersonic system would be deployed in the country “any day now.” According to Lukashenko, it could be located near the city of Smolensk.

In November last year, the US and its NATO allies authorized Ukraine to use long-range weapons to strike inside Russia, after which US and British missiles attacked Moscow's military facilities in the Kursk and Bryansk regions.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the time that his country responded to those attacks by firing its latest Oreshnik medium-range hypersonic ballistic missile with a conventional warhead at a Ukrainian defense industrial facility, the Yuzhmash plant in Dnepr (formerly Dnepropetrovsk).

According to the Kremlin leader, Western policies could have catastrophic consequences if they continue to escalate the conflict.

In turn, in December 2024, after a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Federation in Minsk, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said he had offered his Russian counterpart to deploy Oreshnik missiles on Belarusian territory.

Russian President Putin said that the delivery of the missiles could be carried out in the second half of 2025, and according to Mr. Lukashenko, Belarus has about 30 locations where the Oreshnik missiles can be deployed.

Oreshnik is Russia's newest weapon, confidently declared by President Putin to be unrivaled, attacking targets at a speed of Mach 10, equivalent to 2.5–3km/second.

Even former US National Security Advisor, General Herbert McMaster, said it would take at least 15 years to create an air defense system capable of intercepting Russia's Oreshnik missile.

Source: https://baoquocte.vn/nga-tung-thu-vu-khi-dang-so-nhat-den-belarus-303109.html