Belarus President: Our Planes Can Now Carry Nukes

August 26, 2022 nuclear weapons, Russia

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday that his military’s SU-24 warplanes had been modified to carry nuclear weapons and that Minsk would react immediately if the West caused it any problems.

Lukashenko said he had agreed the move to modernise Belarusian warplanes with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Belta news agency reported.

Belarus, a staunch Russian ally, does not have its own nuclear weapons. Lukashenko did not go into details about how a weapons transfer from Moscow, which is using Belarusian territory to mount what it calls its “special military operation” against Ukraine, might take place.

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If Lukashenka is to be believed, Russia has breached Article 1 of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and Belarus has breached Article 2. Both have effectively wiped their bottoms with the Budapest Memorandum. https://t.co/s6By9H0kRE

— Euan MacDonald (@Euan_MacDonald) August 26, 2022