MOSCOW, March 31. /TASS/. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that he had ordered the restoration of sites where Russia could deploy Topol ballistic missiles if necessary.

"I ordered the servicemen a week ago to immediately restore the sites where Topol nuclear warheads were deployed," he said on Friday in his State of the Nation Address to the Belarusian people and the National Assembly.

The president said that he had ordered the preservation of most of the sites where the ballistic missiles were deployed in the 1990s, when nuclear weapons were removed from Belarusian territory to Russia. "I have preserved these sites," Lukashenko said.