MINSK, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko supported the idea of building a plant to produce Russian drones in Belarus, the press service of the Belarusian leader said on Thursday.
Visiting BelExpo National Exhibition Center on Thursday, where Russian UAVs for monitoring terrain and agriculture, and cargo drones were exhibited, Lukashenko praised Russian specialists for the results achieved in the development and production of drones.
The Belarusian leader said that Russia demonstrates good results in developing and producing UAVs.
At the exhibition, the deputy chief of staff of the Presidential Executive Office of Russia, Maxim Oreshkin, said the Russian side is proposing that Belarus build an enterprise that could produce up to 100,000 drones annually. ■