Belarus announced this Thursday the deployment of an anti-aircraft regiment in the Brest regionnear the border with Ukraine, due to increased military tension in the region.
“The situation around our country is not improving. An active militarization of the West is taking place, the military potential around our borders is increasing. Ukraine is being supplied with weapons, whose leaders act unpredictably,” said Victor Khrenin, Belarusian Defense Minister , according to the BELTA agency.
Khrenin stressed that Minsk had no choice but to “react adequately to the challenges and threats that may arise in the framework of the country’s security.”
He explained that this regiment was stationed in a military garrison in the town of Luninets, which is less than 50 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
The minister, who visited the facilities, specified that the regiment has been assigned “the best specialists”which have the more modern weaponry.
Belarusian President Alexandr Lukashenko assured in February that Russia had supplied Minsk with Iskander tactical missile systems and close to a million projectiles of various calibers.
Lukashenko, the main ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin in his military campaign against Ukraine, stressed that Moscow also sent him “S-400 long-range anti-aircraft defense systems”, to which must be added a Tor anti-aircraft battery.
“The military got what they wanted. It is a fearsome weapon”he said, adding that Minsk will also receive Russian Su-30M jets and Mi-35M helicopters.
The day before Lukashenko urged the West to move towards a peaceful solution to the conflict in Ukraine and not to provoke an escalation, after criticizing the possible shipment of projectiles with depleted uranium by the United Kingdom to that country.
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