Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko stated that his nation has begun receiving Russian tactical nuclear weapons, some of which are three times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States in 1945.
Lukashenko said on Tuesday that “everything is ready” for the deployment of Russia’s nuclear weapons, adding that it might only take a few days for us to receive what they requested and even more.
These warheads, which have a shorter range and less destructive power, are Moscow’s first to be moved outside Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Belarus shares a border with three NATO members: Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland.
The deployment of nuclear weapons will serve as a deterrent against potential aggressors, according to Lukashenko, who has allowed Russia to use his country to attack Ukraine.
The Russian leader announced in March that he had consented to the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, citing the decades-long U.S. deployment of similar weapons in numerous European nations.
