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According to the US newspaper “Wall Street Journal” (WSJ), Lukashenko announced at the end of last year that the planned use of Russian tactical nuclear weapons in the country had been completed.
US officials do not provide full details of their intelligence reports on the transfer of nuclear weapons to Belarus, and as the WSJ points out, it is entirely possible that Lukashenko is bluffing. At the same time last July, the US Defense Intelligence Agency said there was “no reason to question Vladimir Putin’s statements about Russia supplying nuclear weapons to Belarus.”
The think tank “Federation of American Scientists” analyzed the disclosed intelligence data, including video recordings from the Belarusian Defense Ministry, and concluded that “the Lida air base, located 40 kilometers from the Lithuanian border and the only wing of …” “The The Belarusian air force equipped with Su-25 is the most likely location for Belarus to carry out the new “nuclear exchange” mission with Russia,” writes the WSJ.
The newspaper noted that Lukashenko announced the completion of the deployment of nuclear weapons at a time when Russia is increasing its threat to the West. Putin recently announced that there would be “problems” with Finland after NATO reportedly accepted Helsinki into the alliance. In November, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said Poland was an “enemy” that could lose its statehood.
“Putin’s provocative nuclear move in Belarus is a reminder of what is at stake in Ukraine,” the WSJ warned.
It has already been announced that on March 25 last year, Putin announced that Russia would deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. Officials from both countries said at the time that Russia and Belarus were prompted to take such a step by Western hostility.
In May, the two sides signed an agreement to station Russian nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus, with Moscow retaining control of the weapons.
At the end of August, Polish President Andrzej Duda announced that Russia would transfer short-range nuclear weapons to Belarus, emphasizing that Russia was thereby changing the security architecture of the region and NATO as a whole.
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