“God forbid that I decide to use these weapons, but I will not hesitate if our country is attacked,” said Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, in connection with the imminent arrival of Russian tactical nuclear weapons in his country. the Reuters news agency According to his statement
Lukashenko explained that Belarus has begun to receive military weapons, some of which are three times more powerful than those dropped by the United States on the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945.
Back in the spring, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he would install short-range nuclear weapons on the territory of his western neighbor—the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union that nuclear warheads had been installed outside of Russia. According to the latest news, weapons within a few days They may already be in Belarus. Although the Kremlin maintained at the time that the weapons would remain under Russian control, Lukashenka spoke about it on Tuesday. Russian 1 for the Russian state television channel, that the agreement with Russia on the use of nuclear weapons is not a problem. He assured that they could answer the phone at any moment to arrange an appointment.
Why are they needed? So that no foreign soldier would set foot on Belarusian soil again
– announce Head of the post-Soviet state with regard to military assets.