Belarus begins receiving tactical nuclear weapons from Russia.

"We have missiles and bombs that we received from Russia," Lukashenko said in an interview with Russian state television channel Rossiya-1, which was posted on the Telegram channel of the Belarusian state news agency Belta.

President Alexander Lukashenko speaks to the press in Minsk, Belarus, on June 14, 2023. Photo: Presidential Press Service of Belarus

"These bombs were three times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki," he said, speaking on a road with military vehicles parked nearby and some kind of military storage facility visible in the background.

Last Friday, President Vladimir Putin said that Russia would begin deploying tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus once special storage facilities to house them were ready.

In March, the Russian leader announced he had agreed to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, noting that the US had also deployed such weapons in a number of European countries for decades.

Lukashenko told Russian state television in an interview, released late Tuesday, that his country has many nuclear storage facilities left over from the Soviet era and has restored five or six of them.

The Belarusian president added that the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons is for the defense of the country. He said: “We are always a target… So far no one has attacked a nuclear state, a country with nuclear weapons.”

Huy Hoang (according to Belta, Rossiya-1, Reuters)

Source: https://www.congluan.vn/belarus-bat-dau-nhan-vu-khi-hat-nhan-chien-thuat-cua-nga-post251606.html