{"id":87728,"date":"2022-12-20T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/12\/20\/belarus-says-its-russian-s-400-iskander-missiles-enter-combat-duty\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:30:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:30:46","slug":"belarus-says-its-russian-s-400-iskander-missiles-enter-combat-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/flashpoints\/2022\/12\/20\/belarus-says-its-russian-s-400-iskander-missiles-enter-combat-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus says its Russian S-400, Iskander missiles enter \u2018combat duty\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WARSAW, Poland \u2014 Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has announced the S-400 air defense systems and Iskander missiles the country has received from Russia have been put \u201con combat duty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The move comes as analysts are seeing Moscow\u2019s rising pressure on Minsk to increase the satellite nation\u2019s involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lukashenko made the announcement during the authoritarian leader\u2019s meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, during the latter\u2019s Dec. 19 visit to Minsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cToday, we put on combat duty the S-400 complex, which you handed over to Belarus, and, most importantly, the Iskander complex, which you also, having promised it six months ago, handed over to us,\u201d Lukashenko said, as quoted in a statement released by the Russian president\u2019s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lukashenko has long called on the Kremlin to provide his regime with Iskander missile systems. 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