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Belarus' military drills began just a day after Russia announced it intended to conduct exercises simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons in response to statements by Western officials...
The President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has warned of nuclear war.
In a statement to the media, Lukashenko said that Belarus will immediately respond to any aggressor who attacks.
"If someone were to use these weapons against us, we would respond immediately, there are no red lines: any aggression will be repelled with an immediate response ," said the president of Belarus.
On the other hand, Belarus has taken a number of measures for planning and practicing nuclear weapons attacks.
The Minister of Defense of Belarus, Viktor Khrenin, announced that today they received the order to conduct an inspection of the forces and means of carriers of non-strategic nuclear weapons. He added that a medium-range missile unit and a squadron of Su-25 fighter jets will take part in the exercise.
The military exercise will take place with missiles and fighter jets capable of carrying tactical nuclear weapons, which its close ally Russia sent there a year ago.
Belarus' military drills began just a day after Russia announced plans to conduct exercises simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons in response to statements by Western officials.
This was the first time that Moscow publicly announced such an exercise.
Belarus' Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said a unit of Iskander medium-range missiles and a squadron of Su-25 fighter jets would take part in the exercise. These exercises began on the day Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, was sworn in for his fifth term, pledging to guarantee Russia's security.
The president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, relies on close ties with Russia, as the latter has offered its country as a strategic ground for the war in Ukraine.
Moscow stressed that the tactical nuclear weapons moved to Belarus are under Russia's military control.
Moving tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, which shares a 1,084-kilometer border with Ukraine, would allow Russian missiles and warplanes to reach their targets more easily and quickly, if Moscow decides to use them. .
It also allows Russia to more easily strike some NATO allies in Eastern and Central Europe.
Unlike nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles, which can destroy entire cities, tactical nuclear weapons, made for use against troops on the battlefield, are less powerful.
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