March 29 () –
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has affirmed this Tuesday that he is “concerned” by the possibility that Russia sends tactical nuclear weapons in Belarusian territory, as announced this weekend by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
The US president, who recalled that Moscow “still” has not sent the weapons, has told the press that “clearly” he is concerned about this announcement.
Likewise, Biden has stressed that Putin’s recent statements constitute “a dangerous type of speech” and “alarming”.
For its part, the Government of Belarus justified hours before the need to strengthen its defensive capabilities given the “legitimate concerns” it has in terms of security, calling international reactions to the deployment of nuclear weapons “exaggerated”.
The Belarusian Foreign Ministry stated in a statement that, “for the past two and a half years”, since the controversial August 2020 elections that revalidated the mandate of Alexander Lukashenko amid suspicions of fraud, the country has been the victim of political pressure and economic “unprecedented” for which he blames the countries of NATO and the EU.
It is considered the target of “direct and serious” interference in affairs that are solely internal with the aim of changing the political regime in Minsk, while instead the NATO countries bordering Belarus “accumulate” military capacity.
It is in this context that the Lukashenko government frames the latest agreement with Russia for the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons, which it does not consider “nothing new”. He also argued that collaboration in this area with Moscow does not in any way constitute a violation of international commitments, in line with the thesis that the Russian authorities have also defended in recent days.