Armed Forces of Belarus The Armed Forces of Belarus consists of Army and Aeronautics , All under the command of Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Belarus . The Colonel General Leonid Maltsev is currently the defense minister . Being a landlocked , Belarus don ' t have a marine . History . The army Belarus formed after the country gained independence in 1992 from the troops of the " Belarusian Military District " the Soviet Union . 1992 rendered by the 100 , 000 Soviet troops in Belarus took the oath to the new Belarusian state . About 70 percent of the officers were at the time Russians or Ukrainian . With the restructuring of the armed forces in main defensive forces as the central core of Reservists ' associations and the establishment of a fast mobile Reaction Force there were always financial problems . The aim was the establishment of 75 , 000 soldiers . On 11 January 1992 , the Belarusian Parliament decided the assumption of all former Soviet troops on the territory under their own command and the formation of a Ministry of Defence . An exception was the strategic forces , tactical , together with the Nuclear weapons should return to Russia . On 4 February 1992 Parliament ratified the UN Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( Agreement to reduce strategic nuclear weapons ) . On 20 March 1992 were officially formed the new Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus . In April 1992 , Belarus signed the first of the former Soviet Union Charter of Paris the CSCE ( CSCE ) . After the takeover Alyaksandr Lukashenka took over on 21 July 1994 " Anatoly Kostenko " the Office of Defense . On corruption charges in the leadership of the armed forces came Kostenko back in June 1995 . was in exchange for a rather small loan of € 25 million for the benefit of Belarus on 8 January 1995 , Russia signed a lease agreement which grants the Russian armed forces by 2020 the use of military facilities and bases in Belarus . On 11 January 1995 Belarus also accepted the offer of the NATO on a military cooperation under the Partnership for Peace ( PfP ) . In February 1995 , informed the Belarusian Government , the implementation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( KSE ) in 1990 because of financial problems repealed only in 2004 and ratified the 1999 Convention , adopted in Istanbul on the adaptation of the CFE Treaty . Until December 1995 65 Intercontinental missiles Type RS - 12M Topol ( NATO : SS - 25 Sickle ) deducted from Belarus . The last two operational regiments with around 18 mobile nuclear missiles were deployed by the end of 1996 to Russia . In January 1997 , took over the former Chief of Staff Chumakov the office of former defense minister , but could make no progress in the development of military infrastructure . The readiness of the weapon was not completely restored . Thus , according to data from the existing western Belarus in the 130 combat aircraft , only about one third use . On 19 December 1997 was again a " Treaty between the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation on Military Cooperation " and " Agreement on the joint ensuring Regionalsicherheit in the military field " completed . On 22 January 1998 was made at a meeting of the Supreme Council of the Russian - Belarusian Union in Moscow The agreement on the design for the common defense policy . Since the military reform in 2001 , there are two Territorialkommandos Hrodna ( Formerly the headquarters of the 28th army ) Borisov ( Former 65th Army ) . In June 2006 a Russian - Belarusian large scale on was held with 8800 soldiers . In November 2006 , Russia supplied modern anti - aircraft missile systems of the type S - 300PS to the Belarusian armed forces . The defense budget in the same year amounted to 421 million U . S . dollars . As part of a joint CIS air defense maintains a radar station in Russia Baranavichy Type " Volga " , which is also used to collect ballistic missiles . In addition , both sides of their arms industries and exports , have closely coordinated . In February 2008 it came to negotiations with Russia in 2009 , this modern long - distance , Surface to air missile system S - 400 Triumf ( SA - 21 Growler ) to combat Combat aircraft and Cruise missiles to acquire all altitudes . Organization . Belarus and Russia are working very closely together militarily . In the event of an attack on Belarus , the country would take the air , while Russia takes over the operational command of land forces . The armed forces of Belarus would be led by a joint command , that of a Russian general of the Group of Russian troops in Kaliningrad is directed . 2007 , the full strength of the armed forces some 72 940 soldiers , which was 18 170 at the Air Force . The number of reservists ( service in the last 5 years ) comprising 290 000 men , they will be convened annually to two - month exercises . The Universal conscription is 9 – 12 months . Current Defense Minister Leonid Maltsev is Colonel - General ( МАЛЬЦЕВ Леонид Семенович ) , his deputy chief of staff Sergei Gurulew Army . The ground forces include 29 600 soldiers . The Ministry of Defence report directly is a special forces brigade , two brigades with floor - to - surface missiles ( including 60 pieces R - 17 ( Scud ) ) And a telecommunications Brigade . The army is divided into three commands : Equipement . The equipment of the Army of the Republic of Belarus is essentially Soviet or Russian origin : Low stocks of medium tanks of the type T - 62 and T - 54 are also still available . IFV : Crew transport vehicle : Artillery : Multiple - : Defence Systems : A total of approximately 350 pieces of different types : Air Force . The Air Force is a lack of Belarus with 18 170 soldiers of modern equipment and intensive training of pilots , which is due to the limited defense budget . In December 2001 , the two areas of Air Force ( VVS ) and Air Defence ( PVO were combined ) . The main air bases are in Baranavichy and Bereza . Among the air force organizations : Equipment . The air forces have mainly on equipment from the former Soviet Union or Russia . Other suppliers in recent years , Poland and Ukraine .