Belarus says it is ready to receive “nuclear weapons” from Russia in case of a threat from the West

the president of BelarusAleksandr Lukashenko, very close to Moscow, said on Thursday that his country would be willing to receive “nuclear weapons” if it felt threatened by Western countries, at a time of tension on the border between Russia Y Ukraine.

“If necessary, if these stupid and nonsensical steps are taken by our rivals and opponents, we will deploy not only nuclear weapons but supernuclear weapons, promising weaponry, in order to defend our territory,” declared Lukashenkoquoted by the local press.

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“If there are no threats against Belarus there will be no need for nuclear weapons in 100 years”, he added.

Belarus, like other former Soviet republics, renounced the nuclear weapons deployed on its territory and, under pressure from the United States, agreed to return them to Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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The Belarusian Constitution provided for the country to be a nuclear-weapon-free zone. But this article was modified in the new version proposed by Lukashenko, which will be submitted to a referendum on February 27.

The new Constitution does not rule out the deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus, a country bordering Ukraine and Poland.

Lukashenko will travel to Moscow on Friday to meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

The Belarusian president, in power since 1994, was re-elected in 2020 in highly criticized elections that provoked massive protests that were harshly repressed. The referendum at the end of February will open the door for him to remain in power until 2035.

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Source: Elcomercio

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