Belarus has announced that its forces have also practised the deployment of the Oreshnik missile system during the joint Zapad-2025 (West-2025) exercises with Russia.

Source: BelTA, a Belarusian state-owned news outlet, citing Pavel Muraveyko, Chief of the General Staff and First Deputy Defence Minister of Belarus, as reported by European Pravda

Details: Muraveyko said that “all assigned tasks have been completed” during the exercises.

“Among the key activities, I can note the planning and consideration of the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons as well as the assessment and deployment of the Oreshnik mobile missile system. We made extensive use of drones in different configurations,” Muraveyko said.

He emphasised that thanks to cooperation with the Russians, who have up-to-date combat experience, the Belarusian military is receiving “the most modern and most advanced information”.

Background:

Russia has used the Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile only once in the war against Ukraine – in a strike on Dnipro in November 2024.Shortly afterwards, the self-proclaimed president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, announced that Moscow would transfer such a system to Belarus.The Russian-Belarusian Zapad-2025 exercises began at the end of last week. According to the Russian Ministry of Defence, the manoeuvres are taking place on the territory of Russia and Belarus and in the Baltic and Barents Seas from 12 to 16 September.Poland completely closed its border with Belarus on the evening of 11 September due to the Zapad military exercises, a decision taken even before the provocation involving Russian drones. Warsaw noted that the end of the exercises would not automatically mean the reopening of the border.The Latvian parliament also voted to fully close its borders with Russia and Belarus for the duration of the manoeuvres.In Finland, officials warned that Russia’s military exercises could take “unexpected turns”.

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