{
 "slug": "belarus-nears-completion-of-oreshnik-medium-range-ballistic-missile-launch-pads-awaits-russian-delivery-lukashenka-says",
 "title": "Belarus and the Oreshnik: From Lukashenko's 'Any Day Now' to Combat Duty",
 "url": "https://www.grosswald.org/belarus-nears-completion-of-oreshnik-medium-range-ballistic-missile-launch-pads-awaits-russian-delivery-lukashenka-says/",
 "canonical": "https://www.grosswald.org/belarus-nears-completion-of-oreshnik-medium-range-ballistic-missile-launch-pads-awaits-russian-delivery-lukashenka-says/",
 "type": "dispatch",
 "published": "2025-03-17T11:50:01.000+01:00",
 "updated": "2026-07-14T12:02:32.000+02:00",
 "excerpt": "Alexander Lukashenko spent early 2025 insisting Russian Oreshnik missiles would reach Belarus 'any day now'. They were declared on combat duty on 30 December 2025 — nearly a year later, and not at the site he had named.",
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  "poland",
  "russia",
  "ukraine"
 ],
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 "capabilities": [
  "strike-long-range-fires"
 ],
 "tags": [
  "polish-lithuanian-axis",
  "russia-ukraine-conflict",
  "stk-strike-long-range-fires"
 ],
 "sources": [],
 "entities": [
  "nato",
  "russia"
 ],
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  "countries": [
   "russia"
  ],
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   "alliance-policy"
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}