12 airplanes are to be placed at the Russian military base in Belarus

belvpo.com

Such measures are provided by the project of the deployment of a Russian airbase in Belarus.

Apart from the warplanes, 4 helicopters Mi-8 will be sent there, head of the operative administration of the Russian Air Forces Alexander Lyapkin said.

The staff of the air base and its organization structure have already been approved, he said, adding that the document has been approved by Belarus. Lyapkin asked his Belarusian colleagues to facilitate the preparation for signing the agreement, Euroradio quotes him saying.

Let us recall that Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian Ministry of Defence and MFA to reach an agreement on the deployment of a military base with Belarus in the middle of September. Aliaksandr Lukashenka claimed later that he had not discussed the deployment of a Russian military base in Belarus.

As “EuroBelarus” Information Service has already informed, Belarusian Defense Ministry sees “no sense” in a Russian airbase in our country.

Earlier in October a number of political and civil leaders shared their thoughts on deployment of the Russian airbase in Belarus.