Dictator Alexander Lukashenko said he has modern nuclear weapons and threatened to use them if someone attacks Belarus

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“Any careless word or movement and an open armed confrontation could begin, even with the use of nuclear weapons.” With these words, the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, Vladimir Putin’s top ally in the crisis that caused the Russian invasion of Ukraine, made it clear that he remains 100 percent aligned with the Kremlin, while confirming that his country hosts a atomic arsenal provided by Moscow.

“The leaders of the Russian Federation (…) made a decision, I emphasize once again, at my insistence, and not because they wanted to establish a nuclear weapons base here, and they sent us a certain amount (of nuclear weapons). I will not give the exact figures, as I have already said, there are several dozen of the most modern nuclear weapons: bombs and missiles,” Lukashenko said before the People’s Assembly of Belarus.

While the audience listened in total silence, he referred to the recent approval of US aid to Ukraine, which provides for more than $60 billion in military supplies of all kinds. Among them would be the ATACMS missiles (Army Tactical Missile System), which have the capacity to reach targets 300 kilometers away.

An ATACMS missile is fired in the middle of US military exercises (South Korea Defense Ministry/Y / DPA/File)

“Previously they supplied them and at least publicly declared that they prohibited the Ukrainians from attacking the territory of Russia and part of Belarus. Now they no longer condition the supply of ATACMS or other long-range munitions. The situation is developing threateningly for Russia (…) and Russia will use all the arsenal it has. It will be an apocalypse,” the dictator warned in Minsk.

Lukashenko’s statements add to those made more briefly by the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, who this Wednesday had indicated that Russia could extend its “security zone” in Ukraine due to the possible provision of long-range weapons by the USA.

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The Kremlin is increasingly concerned about Ukrainian attacks on Russian border regions, which have drawn the ire of Putin, who seeks to downplay the repercussions of his offensive in Ukraine on the Russian population.

So far, kyiv has mainly used drones, but their firepower could increase if kyiv has ATACMS missiles in the coming weeks thanks to US help.

Lukashenko continued his comments about the atomic weapons that are deployed on his territory: “There is probably no need to return them, although we are not going to go to war with the United States. The strategic weapons are intercontinental ballistic missiles that used to be deployed here (before Belarus joined the Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1993). But tactical weapons are out of the question, they must be on the territory of Belarus,” he stated.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) listens to his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 11, 2024. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

The Minsk government has reiterated on numerous occasions its alignment with Putin’s thinking on Ukraine’s belonging to Russia and supports it from both a political and racial position, since it considers that they are all Slavs and must therefore maintain a cohesion that of forces in the face of the infiltration of the Western way of life and customs.

For this reason, he usually puts Europe on his list of enemies, and assumes that his place in the eyes of the rest of the continent is one: “Putin and I are on the list of co-aggressors, we are the main enemies and aggressors in the world.”

The bellicose rhetoric of the Belarusian leader did not stop at the threat of nuclear weapons, but continued: “And they know very well that if, God forbid, they set foot on the territory of Belarus, they will receive an instant response from our part with all kinds of weapons, and also from the Russians. You recently heard President Putin’s statement that an attack on Belarus will be considered an attack on the Russian Federation. Therefore, today we are completely determined to 100% resist any aggressor and inflict unacceptable damage on him,” he concluded.