Belarus starts taking delivery of Russian nuclear weapons

[RandySF]

June 14 (Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said his country has started taking delivery of Russian tactical nuclear weapons, some of which he said were three times more powerful than the atomic bombs the US dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

The deployment is Moscow's first move of such warheads - shorter-range less powerful nuclear weapons that could potentially be used on the battlefield - outside Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union.

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

"The bombs are three times more powerful than those (dropped on) Hiroshima and Nagasaki," he said, speaking on a road in a forest clearing with military vehicles parked nearby and some kind of military storage facility visible in the background.



https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/belarus-has-started-taking-delivery-russian-tactical-nuclear-weapons-president-2023-06-14/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. So it's OK for Belarus to accept and to deploy Russian nuclear weapons, but

Ukraine had to relinquish and dismantle ITS nuclear weapons when it declared its independence from the USSR.

[Brother Buzz]

2. I believe Russia already had the weapons prepositioned in Belarus

What does Lukashenko hope to gain making this announcement, considering this is not going to be received well by the Belarusian underground, his biggest threat.

[Backseat Driver]

3. He so safe now: Singing, I'm in da mon-ey! Send out the invites, dude!

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[EYESORE 9001]

4. Got a death wish, poot?

Do ya, PUNK?