Lukashenko assures that he controls the Russian deployment and opens the door to strategic nuclear weapons

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko assured that the deployment of Russian forces in his country is under his control amid the Kremlin’s plan to deploy tactical nuclear weapons there it has even shown that it is willing to receive nuclear weapons with a strategic capacity, much more devastating, Europa Press reported.

“Let no one worry about the idea that Russia has occupied something here. All those Russian units are being trained by 500 Belarusian officers,” assured Lukashenko in his State of the Nation speech before the parliament, as reported by the Belta agency. “We cannot scare people by saying that Vladimir Putin has occupied Belarus”was used by Lukashenko, a faithful ally of the Russian president despite the fact that he constantly defended that his country was directly neutral in the war in Ukraine.

“We control the troops that are on our territory and they are here to train and learn how we can work together if the day comes that, God forbid, we have to,” he added. In his speech, Lukashenko ordered the armed forces to restore the old silos that housed Soviet nuclear-capable Topol missiles. “I saved them all,” the Belarusian president declared, before assuring that he would even be willing to accept the deployment of strategic nuclear weapons that, unlike the tactics agreed with the Kremlin, are capable of causing massive destruction.

«If necessary, Putin and I will also bring strategic nuclear weapons here. And that foreign scum who is now trying to break us inside and out must understand. We will stop at nothing in the defense of our countries, our states and our people,” assured the Belarusian president.