{"id":2545,"date":"2023-04-03T20:21:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T01:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2023-04-03T20:21:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T01:21:31","slug":"russian-ambassador-to-belarus-says-russia-will-place-nukes-close-to-belarus-western-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=2545","title":{"rendered":"Russian Ambassador to Belarus Says Russia Will Place Nukes Close to Belarus\u2019 Western Border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-2546\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-9.png 788w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-9-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-9-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-9-293x165.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-9-390x219.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/russia-put-nukes-belarus-western-border-envoy-98306569\">comments<\/a>&nbsp;by Russia\u2019s Ambassador to Belarus Boris Gryzlov, Russia plans on deploying tactical nuclear weapons near Belarus\u2019 borders with NATO member nations as the Russo-Ukrainian conflict has no end in sight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gryzlov\u2019s remarks came after Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s recent remark about Russia\u2019s plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. This represents the latest form of escalation in this conflict as Russia tries to check any maneuvers carried out by NATO to ratchet up tensions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an announcement, Putin stated that the construction of storage facilities for tactical nukes in Belarus will be finished by July 1. He stressed that Russia assisted with the modernization of Belarusian military aircraft in order to make them capable of carrying nukes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite some hiccups in the post-Cold War era, Belarus and Russia have seen their relations tighten in recent years as the Collective West has gone obsessively woke and has started to isolate every nation that is not a liberal democracy. Russia currently has troops and armaments stored in Belarus in an attempt to both contain NATO advances and potentially launch another invasion in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While making an appearance on Belarusian state media, Gryzlov said that Russian nukes will be \u201cmoved up close to the Western border of our union state\u201d but did not offer any exact location to where these weapons will be placed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt will expand our defense capability, and it will be done regardless of all the noise in Europe and the United States,\u201d he said in reference to the Collective West\u2019s criticism of Putin\u2019s move to station nukes in Belarus .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ABC News&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/russia-put-nukes-belarus-western-border-envoy-98306569\">noted<\/a>&nbsp;that \u201cBelarus shares a 1,250-kilometer (778-mile) border with NATO members Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tactical nuclear weapons are generally used to take out enemy troops and weapons on the battlefield. They tend to have a relatively short range and a much lower yield compared with nuclear warheads that are attached to long-range strategic missiles, which have the capacity of destroying whole cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia\u2019s deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus would put them closer to potential targets in Ukraine and NATO member nations in Eastern and Central Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 31, 2023, Belarus\u2019 President Alexander Lukashenko stated that some of Russia\u2019s strategic nuclear weapons could be deployed to Belarus along with several parts of Russia\u2019s tactical nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tensions are not dying down in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. Hopefully, cooler heads prevail here because any potential misstep could result in a nuclear exchange between great powers \u2014 a lose-lose scenario for the entire world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/bigleaguepolitics.com\/russian-ambassador-to-belarus-says-russia-will-place-nukes-close-to-belarus-western-border\/\">https:\/\/bigleaguepolitics.com\/russian-ambassador-to-belarus-says-russia-will-place-nukes-close-to-belarus-western-border\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to&nbsp;comments&nbsp;by Russia\u2019s Ambassador to Belarus Boris Gryzlov, Russia plans on deploying tactical nuclear weapons near Belarus\u2019 borders with NATO member nations as the Russo-Ukrainian conflict has no end in sight.&nbsp; Gryzlov\u2019s remarks came after Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s recent remark about Russia\u2019s plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. This represents the latest form of escalation in this conflict as Russia tries to check any maneuvers carried out by NATO to ratchet up tensions.&nbsp; In an announcement, Putin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ukraine-russia-war"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2547,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions\/2547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}