“After replacing the Mi-8 helicopters in service with Russian helicopters with American-made Black Hawk vehicles, Russian-made equipment and technologies will not remain in our army,” TASS quoted Karoblis as saying.
According to him, a complete rejection of Russian technologies will occur by 2025, and for now "American cars have not arrived, you will have to maintain the presence of Russian-made helicopters in the system and repair them."
Earlier, the Lithuanian leader Gitanas Nauseda said that the US military is deployed in Lithuania to protect the country's inhabitants, this is not directed against Belarus.
In October, heavy equipment of the American battalion arrived in Lithuania, which will be deployed in the country for six months.
In Belarus, the deployment of American tanks and armored vehicles in Lithuania near the Belarusian border was called unprecedented.