Minsk said that the West left Belarus no choice but to place nuclear weapons on its territory

Belarus will place Russian tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) on its territory, since the West has left Minsk no other way. This was stated in a Sunday interview by State Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic Alexander Volfovich."The West simply left Belarus no other way," he said.

Volfovich explained that in the 1990s, "the West, primarily the United States, guaranteed security, the absence of any sanctions against Belarus, but today everything is broken, all promises have collapsed into oblivion."

“If there is still some reason left in the minds of politicians in the West, of course, they will not cross this red line,” the State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus noted. “Because the use of even tactical nuclear weapons will lead to irreversible consequences. This, of course, will be an extreme step "But a step justified in order to protect our country. We do not need someone else's, but we will never give up our own."

Volfovich added that "the United States, pursuing its policy of ignoring the interests of other states, is trying to provoke points of tension around the Russian Federation." As examples, he cited the escalation on the Afghan-Tajik border, on the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan, in Moldova. "Military activity on the territory of the Baltic states,  the militarization of Poland at an accelerated pace - this is done in order to create a powerful fist and unleash a war already in the westernmost direction," the State Secretary of the Security Council believes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on March 25 that Russia, at the request of Minsk, would deploy its tactical nuclear weapons in the republic, as the United States has long been doing on the territory of its allies. According to Putin, on July 1, it is planned to complete the construction of a storage facility for tactical nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said on May 25 that the transfer of non-strategic nuclear weapons from Russia to his country had already begun.