Russia began delivering advanced anti-aircraft missiles to Belarus on Friday, the Belarusian defense minister said.
Belarusian Defense Minister Leonid Maltsev denied a report in the British defense journal Jane‘s Intelligence Digest that Belarus agreed to transfer the S-300SP missiles to Iran to defend against any possible U.S. or Israeli air strikes designed to derail what many in the West allege are its efforts to develop nuclear weapons.
"I have no intention of commenting on this nonsense," Maltsev said. "Under the contract for the delivery of the S-300s from Russia, Belarus does not have the right to transfer these systems anywhere else."
"From the viewpoint of military technology, we are self-sufficient and there is no need for us to consider buying weapons abroad," he said.
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