The Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, affirmed this Monday that the countries that are willing to join the State of the Union of Russia and Belarus, in a commercial, ideological and security alliance between the two countries, will be supplied with strategic weapons with nuclear potential. Last week, Vladimir Putin’s main ally since the war against Ukraine began, confirmed that his country will now be a carrier of nuclear weapons from his Moscow allies.
The information that the Belarusians are now a country with nuclear weapons was public since last March and early April, when Lukashenko expressed his intentions to Putin that he was willing to have several Russian warheads on his territory. “It’s very simple (…) Join the Union State of Belarus and Russia. That’s all: there will be nuclear weapons for everyone,” the president, who has been in power for almost 30 years, told the Russian media.
When the news that his country now had weapons with this capacity in its arsenal, the president refused to specify the number of Russian nuclear warheads that they will now have on their territory, although he assured that he had agreed with Putin all the details of this transfer of Nuclear weapons. “We had to prepare the place for storage and so on. We did it (…) But the transfer of nuclear charges has already begun,” said Lukashenko.
Even so, despite the new position of Moscow’s main ally in various aspects, President Lukashenko affirmed that they will be an example in the face of this new facet of his Army, since he promises that their handling of this weapon capacity will be an example for the world. “Don’t worry about nuclear weapons. We are responsible for it. It’s serious. Everything will be fine,” said the president.
According to The Associated Press (AP), this move to house nuclear warheads is a response to a decision by Great Britain to provide Ukraine with uranium-containing armor-piercing projectiles. In addition, Putin alleges that the United States carries out these same actions with nuclear weapons in countries that are allies of Ukraine and the West, such as Germany, Turkey, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Greece.
Given these measures that favor the discourse of nuclear blackmail, a tool frequently used by Russia since the start of the invasion of Ukraine, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) stated in March that they see no changes in Russia’s nuclear posture. that cause to review the arsenal or the criteria of the Atlantic organization.
Now, one would have to wait for the reactions of Western NATO allies, the European Union (EU) and the United States on the Belarusian strategy on Russia’s strategic board regarding the new potential of the Lukashenko government with nuclear weapons.
With information from CNN, AP and EFE
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