Lukashenko may ask Putin to deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus
<p> MINSK, Nov 30 - PrimePress. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko may approach Russian President Putin with a request to deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko made a statement to this effect on 30 Nov 2021 in an interview with Dmitry Kiselyov, General Director at the Russian state news agency MIA Russia Today. </p> <p> </p> <p> Kiselyov asked Lukashenko to comment on a recent statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg regarding the possible deployment of nuclear weapons in Eastern Europe. “Then I will suggest that Putin should return nuclear weapons to Belarus. We will agree on what kind. The nuclear weapons that will be most effective in such an engagement. We in Belarus' territory are ready for it. As a thoughtful landlord I haven't destroyed anything [of the USSR infrastructure for nuclear weapons], all the depots remain in place,” said Lukashenko. </p> <p> </p> <p> “So, they have started these military exercises in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine. What am I to do as the commander-in-chief? I cannot fall for these provocations but I also have to foresee what may happen... This is why I am forced to have plans and forces, units of the Belarusian army, which will respond to any attempt to create a conflict here. At the border of the Baltic states, Poland, and Ukraine. Unfortunately, they even rushed ahead of even NATO forces, Ukrainians, as usual. They closed the skies for flights of Belarusian aircraft sooner than the European Union and Americans did. It is exactly the same here, too.” </p> <p> </p> <p> As previously reported, Lukashenko held a meeting on military security in the strategic control centre of the Defence Ministry on 29 November. There he voiced a warning that if Ukraine tried to initiate a conflict with Russia, Belarus would not stand aside. He had earlier said that the US wanted to start a war in the region at the hands of Poland, the Baltic States and Ukraine. End </p>
2021-12-01
Primepress
Lukashenko may ask Putin to deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus
MINSK, Nov 30 - PrimePress. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko may approach Russian President Putin with a request to deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko made a statement to this effect on 30 Nov 2021 in an interview with Dmitry Kiselyov, General Director at the Russian state news agency MIA Russia Today.
Kiselyov asked Lukashenko to comment on a recent statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg regarding the possible deployment of nuclear weapons in Eastern Europe. “Then I will suggest that Putin should return nuclear weapons to Belarus. We will agree on what kind. The nuclear weapons that will be most effective in such an engagement. We in Belarus' territory are ready for it. As a thoughtful landlord I haven't destroyed anything [of the USSR infrastructure for nuclear weapons], all the depots remain in place,” said Lukashenko.
“So, they have started these military exercises in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine. What am I to do as the commander-in-chief? I cannot fall for these provocations but I also have to foresee what may happen... This is why I am forced to have plans and forces, units of the Belarusian army, which will respond to any attempt to create a conflict here. At the border of the Baltic states, Poland, and Ukraine. Unfortunately, they even rushed ahead of even NATO forces, Ukrainians, as usual. They closed the skies for flights of Belarusian aircraft sooner than the European Union and Americans did. It is exactly the same here, too.”
As previously reported, Lukashenko held a meeting on military security in the strategic control centre of the Defence Ministry on 29 November. There he voiced a warning that if Ukraine tried to initiate a conflict with Russia, Belarus would not stand aside. He had earlier said that the US wanted to start a war in the region at the hands of Poland, the Baltic States and Ukraine. End