The latest Russian missile system known as Oreshnik has entered combat duty on the territory of Belorussia, President Aleksandr Lukashenko announced while addressing the All-Belorussian People’s Assembly in Minsk.

According to Lukashenko, the system has already been fully commissioned and deployed in more than a single unit. He made clear that Minsk does not see any need to disclose the number of launch vehicles involved or to go into operational details.

The Belorussian leader also focused on the production side of the project, stressing that the complex is largely built domestically. He said that more than half of Oreshnik’s components are manufactured in Belorussia, with only the missile itself — described as a technically sophisticated element — produced in Russia. Lukashenko noted that this assessment had previously been shared with him by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Earlier, Ukrainian media published their own calculations suggesting that an Oreshnik missile deployed in Belorussia could cover the distance to Kiev in under two minutes.

For his part, President Vladimir Putin has previously described the destructive capabilities of the Oreshnik ballistic missile. He said that everything at the epicenter of its detonation is reduced to dust, with the temperature of the weapon’s damaging elements reaching around 4,000 degrees. Putin also pointed out that the missile is designed to strike even heavily fortified targets located deep underground.