MINSK. Feb 17 (Interfax) - Nuclear weapons may be deployed in Belarus, and the country may resort to this step in the event of threats from the West, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said after monitoring the Belarusian-Russian exercise Union Resolve 2022 at the Osipovichsky Range.
"If need be, if our opponents and rivals take such dumb and stupid steps, we'll deploy not only nuclear but also super-nuclear advanced weapons to defend our territory," the state-run news agency BelTA quoted Lukashenko as saying on Thursday.
Lukashenko said that, if he does not see threats from the West, the deployment of nuclear weapons in Belarus will be irrelevant. "They won't be necessary here for donkey's years," he said.