Belarus: The president of Belarus has stated that Russia has finished shipping tactical nuclear weapons to his nation, a development that has alarmed other countries.
Mr. Alexander Lukashenko stated that the deliveries were completed in October at a meeting of a Moscow-led economic bloc in St. Petersburg, but he did not specify how many or where they had been used.
When compared to far more potent nuclear warheads attached to long-range missiles, tactical nuclear weapons, which are intended for use in combat, have a lower yield and a shorter range.
Their yield can be as low as one kiloton, which is much lower than the fifteen kilotons of the US bomb dropped on Hiroshima in World War II. According to Russia, it will continue to be in charge of the armaments it supplies Belarus.
Mr. Lukashenko stated that Poland, a NATO member that provides military, political, and humanitarian support to Ukraine, is to be discouraged by Belarus’s hosting of Russian nuclear weapons.
Because of their small size, the devices can be discreetly carried on a truck or aeroplane. The weapons use radiation-free containers, as per the independent military analyst Mr. Aliaksandr Alesin of Minsk, and they could have been transferred to Belarus covertly from the West.
“They easily fit in a regular Il-76 transport plane. There are dozens of flights a day, and it’s very difficult to track down that special flight. The Americans could fail to monitor it,” the analyst said in July 2023, when further reports of shipments were made.
Mr. Alesin said that Belarus has 25 underground missile defence systems for nuclear-tipped intermediate-range missiles that can withstand missile attacks that were constructed during the Cold War.
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