2024-08-20 04:05:35
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that if Moscow decides to use nuclear weapons, it will make Ukraine “happy.” In his opinion, Russia would thus lose allies who support Vladimir Putin’s regime.
According to dictator Lukashenko, the aim of the recent incursion of the Ukrainian army into Russian territory is to provoke the country to use unconventional strategies. | Video: Belta
According to Lukashenko, the aim of the recent incursion of the Ukrainian army into the Kursk region is to provoke Russia to use unconventional combat strategies. “Let’s consider what would happen if we used, for example, tactical nuclear weapons. I am convinced that Ukraine would be happy. That would make them happy,” he said on the broadcast of Russian state television Rossiya 1.
According to Lukashenko, their use would deprive Russia and Belarus of allies. “We would probably have few supporters left, and no more sympathetic countries would cooperate with us, because the whole situation would now directly affect them,” Lukashenko said. “They (Ukrainians) just want to push us to it,” he added.
Oleksandr Lytvynenko, the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, suggested in June that Putin could order the use of tactical nuclear weapons if his army in Ukraine faced a “catastrophic defeat,” reports the Ukrainska Pravda website.
The Russian-Belarusian alliance has been the subject of worldwide interest since the 1990s. Relations between the countries have been strengthening especially since the beginning of Vladimir Putin’s two-decade reign. Mutual sympathy continues even after February 24, 2022, when Minsk became part of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. Even from its territory, Russian soldiers set foot on Ukrainian soil.
Last week, Belarus was supposed to send about a third of its armed forces to the Ukrainian border, the country’s Belta agency reported. Lukashenko claims that this is a reaction to an alleged move by Ukraine, which, according to him, has deployed about 120,000 of its soldiers on the borders of the countries, writes the British Reuters.
Despite this, Kyiv has not seen any increased activity by Russian allies. “The situation on the border with Belarus does not change. As we can see, neither does Lukashenko’s rhetoric. He constantly dramatizes the situation regularly to please the terrorist country,” Ukrainian border guard spokesman Andriy Demchenko told Ukrainska Pravda newspaper.
“There is one difference. Ukrainians in the Kursk region are doing unimaginable things (article with video here)
Ukrainian state TV aired this report where Ukrainians take down the Russian flag in Suzhi | Video: Reuters