May 29. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The head of the Security Council of Belarus, Alexander Volfovich, has asserted this Sunday that the decision to deploy nuclear weapons in Belarusian territory is due to the policies adopted by Western countries.
Volfovich explained that the current situation, in the context of the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, is marked by an increase in defense spending in several countries, especially some of its neighbors, such as Poland, for which reason he considers that “a offensive group. “You can see it with the naked eye,” he has stated.
Thus, he has indicated that Minsk can take the same path and begin to increase military spending, but this would mean “a huge burden” for the economy.
“So one of the elements of strategic deterrence in military terms, of course, is tactical nuclear weapons,” he said, according to the BelTA news agency.
That is why the head of the Belarusian Security Council has indicated that “by withdrawing nuclear weapons from Belarus in the 1990s, the West, mainly the US, guaranteed security, the absence of any sanctions against Belarus”, but “today everything that has been broken, all the promises have collapsed”.
The President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, informed on Thursday within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Forum, held in Moscow, that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, confirmed to him “the start of the transfer of nuclear weapons” from Russia to Belarusian territory.
The construction of a series of storage facilities for this type of weapon is expected to finish on July 1. Moscow has already delivered to Minsk an Iskander missile defense system, which can carry nuclear warheads, while helping to train and equip Russian forces so they can make use of “special ammunition.”
