NATO: There Was No Long-Term Deployment Of Russian Nuclear Weapons In Belarus
7- 3.12.2024, 18:00
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Lukashenka's bluff has been called.
NATO believes that there was no long-term deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus. A high-ranking official stated this at the summit of the Alliance's foreign ministers, Euroradio noted.
“Firstly, we do not believe that there was a long-term deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus or any other deployment that we know about. This does not mean that there was no short-term deployment that happened in the past or may happen in the future, but these are really performative, not strategic signaling components,” the NATO representative emphasized.
In his opinion, statements about nuclear weapons in Belarus are “part of Putin's nuclear sabre rattling, which he is constantly using to weaken the support of allies for Ukraine and increase pressure.”
The NATO representative also noted that there have been no retaliatory changes in Russia's nuclear policy over the past few weeks.