The joint Russian-Belarusian nuclear weapons exercises began on May 18. Belarus’s Defense Ministry announced large-scale maneuvers for combat use of nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence. Rutte stressed that NATO is closely monitoring the exercises.
Ukraine condemned the exercises as a dangerous precedent and a challenge to global security. Belarusian opposition leader in exile Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya said that self-proclaimed President Alexander Lukashenko has turned Belarus into a platform for the Russian threat through nuclear cooperation with Moscow.
EuroPulse reported on May 18 on the start of the joint nuclear exercise between Belarus and Russia: Belarus begins joint nuclear weapons exercise with Russia.
Source: www.pravda.com.ua
