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> WARSAW, Poland - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has announced the S-400 air defense systems and Iskander missiles the country has received from Russia have been put "On combat duty."

> "Today, we put on combat duty the S-400 complex, which you handed over to Belarus, and, most importantly, the Iskander complex, which you also, having promised it six months ago, handed over to us," Lukashenko said, as quoted in a statement released by the Russian president's office.

> The Institute for the Study of War, a U.S. think tank, said in a recent analysis that "Lukashenko uses the rhetoric of defending Belarusian borders against the West and NATO in an effort to avoid participating in the Russian invasion of Ukraine."

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