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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko invites other countries to join the Union State of Belarus and Russia in exchange for tactical nuclear weapons. “No one objects to Kazakhstan and other countries having the same close ties with the Russian Federation as we do,” Lukashenko said in an interview with Russian state television published on Sunday evening.

“If anyone is concerned … it’s very simple: join the Union state of Belarus and Russia. That’s all: there will be nuclear weapons for everyone.” Russia is currently moving forward with its plan to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in its neighboring country of Belarus, which also borders Ukraine. It would be the first time such nuclear warheads have been deployed outside Russia. deployed since the end of the Soviet Union in December 1991.

Exceptional cooperation between Lukashenko and Putin

Lukashenko added that this is his own opinion – not Russia’s. One must “understand strategically” that the governments in Minsk and Moscow have a unique opportunity for unification.

Russia and Belarus form a union state representing a borderless union and alliance between the two former Soviet republics. Lukashenko is also the closest ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin among Russia’s neighbors. The military used Belarusian territory as a staging area for its invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022. Since then, military cooperation between Belarus and Russia has intensified with joint maneuvers on Belarusian soil.

Stationing of Russian weapons in Belarus

On Sunday, the Belarusian Defense Ministry announced that another unit of the S-400 mobile surface-to-air missile system had arrived from Moscow and that the systems should soon be ready for combat. During the Soviet Union, nuclear weapons were already stationed in Belarus.

In December 1994, several years after the collapse, the US, Russia and Britain committed themselves in the Budapest Memorandum to maintaining the territorial independence and sovereignty of Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. In return, these three former Soviet republics renounced the nuclear weapons stationed on their territory. What was then the world’s third largest arsenal of strategic and tactical nuclear missiles was stored in Ukraine, but Russia had operational control over it. These weapons from Ukraine went to Russia in 1996 or were destroyed. (t online, Reuters)