"The issue of rocketry was discussed with Putin," Lukashenko was quoted as saying by his press service.

- They will help us bring to mind the new missiles we are creating.

We have made significant progress, but with the Russians we will soon create a normal missile - they have more competencies. "

He is convinced that Belarus can create a projectile on its own, but it will take more than a year.

However, if a smart person comes and tells us that we are not doing that, we will get an Iskander missile by the end of this year.

"It is a very good weapon," Lukashenko said.

At a meeting on a state defense order on May 10, Lukashenko said that the Russian president had promised to help develop a Belarusian analogue of the Iskander missile system.

He said that on April 12, Putin "set a task" to the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, to immediately support us not to build a bicycle, so that we could use the experience of developers, rocket launchers of the Russian Federation, who made Iskander.

Lukashenka also said that Belarus had bought Iskanders and S-400s from Russia.

"We bought from you the required number of these" Iskanders ", S-400, armed our army.

Now it is a completely different army with such weapons.

At least these weapons can cause unacceptable damage, ”Belta quotes Lukashenka.

• The main purpose of the operational and tactical missile system "Iskander" is to destroy the air and missile defense systems of the enemy, as well as objects covered by them, at a distance of up to 500 km.