The Belarusian ruler Alexandr Lukashenko says he plans to buy Russian weapons worth more than one billion dollars (around 850 million euros).
At their meeting last week, he and Russia's President Vladimir Putin discussed a number of technologies that his country should receive by 2025, Lukashenko said, according to the Belarusian state agency Belta.
In particular, the acquisition of the S-400 air defense system had been discussed, Lukashenko said on Sunday during the visit to a military site not far from the city of Baranovichi in western Belarus.
Russia and Belarus are currently holding a joint maneuver in both countries, in which around 200,000 soldiers take part.
Putin welcomed Lukashenko, who has repeatedly been referred to as the “last dictator in Europe”, for talks in Moscow last Thursday.
The possible realization of a long-planned common Union state was also discussed.
The economically weak Belarus already owes billions to Russia.
Lukashenko's state apparatus has come under increasing pressure from the West after last year's presidential election, which was largely considered to be falsified, and after the brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrators. Both the EU and the United States imposed sanctions.