In statements to the press on the sidelines of the 13th International Meeting of Senior Representatives for Security Affairs, the Belarusian official emphasized that the decision regarding such weapons, agreed upon by Presidents Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, will be implemented despite Western criteria.

“The main thing is that we are certain in our actions, we are confident in what we are doing, that the weapons will, above all, provide reliable resistance in the event of an attack against the Republic,” Volfovich responded to statements by a number of Ukrainian officials and other leaders who claimed that Minsk does not have the Oreshnik missile systems and will likely never have them.

In early December of last year, Lukashenko asked his Russian counterpart to deploy the innovative Oreshnik missiles on his territory.

In March, the president stated that Belarus is manufacturing launch systems for this type of weapon and expected the delivery of one of these ballistic missiles from Russia.

The Oreshnik is a new Russian intermediate-range ballistic missile, capable of hitting targets at a hypersonic speed of Mach 10, equivalent to almost three kilometers per second.

“The creators of this weapon have repeatedly warned that the missile defense systems deployed in Europe are incapable of intercepting it, and the damage caused by its use would be ‘unacceptable.’

The power of a massive attack with such a missile could be equivalent to that of a nuclear strike, meaning everything at the epicenter of the explosion would be shattered and turned to dust.”

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