{"id":544391,"date":"2026-05-21T22:58:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=544391"},"modified":"2026-05-22T12:02:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:02:02","slug":"lukashenka-on-upgrading-polonez-systems-work-is-underway-with-both-china-and-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lukashenka-on-upgrading-polonez-systems-work-is-underway-with-both-china-and-russia","title":{"rendered":"Lukashenka on Upgrading Polonez Systems: \u201cWork Is Underway With Both China and Russia\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>After today\u2019s training on the combat use of nuclear weapons and nuclear support, <b>Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> spoke about the development of Belarusian missile production using the Polonez multiple launch rocket system as an example.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>\u201cWe are improving our Polonez systems. Although it seems only recently that we put them into service. By now we have produced these systems ourselves and are improving the missile that we once developed together with our friends from the People\u2019s Republic of China. Work is underway with both China and Russia.\u201d<\/i><\/em>, he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Belarus plans to test new missile developments in the near future. Launches will be carried out at training grounds in \u201cfriendly states\u201d because the country does not have large testing ranges of its own.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>\u201cWe do not have such training grounds, so we have to use the training grounds of our friends.\u201d<\/i><\/em>, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lukashenka also commented on weapons storage conditions, saying that Russian generals <em><i>\u201clooked with envy\u201d<\/i><\/em> at how Belarus stores ammunition and launch systems supplied from Russia.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>\u201cThere were also Russian generals who looked with envy at how we store not only ammunition but also our launch systems that were delivered to us from the Russian Federation.\u201d<\/i><\/em>, the press service <a href=\"https:\/\/president.gov.by\/ru\/events\/posesenie-raketnoj-brigady-vooruzennyh-sil-v-osipovicskom-rajone\">quoted<\/a> him as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After today\u2019s training on the combat use of nuclear weapons and nuclear support, Aliaksandr Lukashenka spoke about the development of Belarusian missile production using the Polonez multiple launch rocket system as an example. \u201cWe are improving our Polonez systems. Although it seems only recently that we put them into service. By now we have produced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":544390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a101b8d953f4.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lukashenka on Upgrading Polonez Systems: \u201cWork Is Underway With Both China and Russia\u201d"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[143118,143122],"class_list":["post-544391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus","tag-rossija"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}