NATO warning to Belarus; Use of nuclear weapons in the event of an attack

Belarus warned that Minsk would use nuclear weapons if the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) attacked the country.In the midst of tensions between the West and Russia, the Polish army announced: In the coming days, about 1,000 troops and 200 pieces of equipment will be deployed to the Podlaskie Voivodeship in eastern Poland on the border with Belarus.

Leonid Kachinsky, Deputy Defense Minister of Belarus, said: "We will use Russian nuclear weapons for self-defense only if we are attacked by NATO military forces."Emphasizing the unified position of President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on this issue, Kaczynski noted that in the event of aggression, it is possible to use nuclear weapons to counter NATO aggression.

Russian President Vladimir Putin recently confirmed at an international conference in St. Petersburg that the first batch of tactical nuclear warheads had been delivered to Belarus.The Russian President stressed that by deploying nuclear weapons in Belarus, Moscow would do what Washington has done for decades by deploying its tactical nuclear weapons in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey.