Fra min oppegående observatør på Byhaugen i Stavanger, har jeg fått denne:
Belarus ready to start production of Sukhoi Su-25
ground attack aircraft, Lukashenko says
From CNN's
Radina Gigova
Belarus is
ready to launch the production of Sukhoi Su-25 ground attack aircraft, which
"have proved to be efficient in Ukraine," Belarusian President
Alexander Lukashenko told Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting
Friday, according to Belarus state news agency BelTA.
“As I was
informed by the government, they are ready for the production of the Sukhoi
Su-25 attack aircraft that have proved to be efficient in Ukraine. We are even
ready to produce them in Belarus if the Russian Federation provides a little
bit of technological support,” Lukashenko told Putin, according to BelTA.
“You once
raised the question of cooperation in aircraft production in the Eurasian
Economic Union," Lukashenko said, according to BelTA. "So I should
tell you that the Belarusians are already producing up to a thousand component
parts for the MC-21 [Russia's medium-range narrow-body passenger aircraft] and
Sukhoi Superjet 100 [Russia's short-range narrow-body passenger
aircraft]."
"We
have three factories: two military and one civilian. They used to be repair
shops. Today they produce component parts,” Lukashenko said, according to
BelTA.
The two met
Friday at Putin's official residence in Novo-Ogaryovo in the Moscow region,
according to the Kremlin.
Lukashenko
claimed on Thursday there is “no way” his
country would send troops into Ukraine unless it is attacked, and said Russia has
“never asked” him to start a joint war in Ukraine.
Speaking at
a small gathering of journalists from international media, including CNN, at
Minsk’s Palace of Independence, Lukashenko
ducked questions from international media about his country’s complicity in Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine and instead blamed the West for escalating the conflict by
sending weapons to Ukraine.
CNN's Frederik Pleitgen and Zahra Ullah contributed to
this post.
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