The CIS Council of Heads of Security Agencies and Special Services met in Minsk, Belarus yesterday. There, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said that Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine are plotting to violently overthrow the Belarusian government. “As for Belarus, I would like to note that in Poland, Lithuania and, unfortunately, Ukraine, members of illegal armed formations are being trained, and attempts are being made, to create extremist sleeper cells directly in the country. Recent facts testify to this,” he said, reported TASS. “That is, they are planning to forcibly take power. We can see that and we won’t let it happen,” Lukashenko asserted.
Lukashenko’s national security advisor Alexander Volfovich told the same meeting that the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus is meant as a response to the unfriendly actions of the West. “We are taking measures, including as part of the deterrence system,” he said. “Of course, first and foremost with our strategic partner, the Russian Federation, as well as with our historical partners: the colleagues in the Collective Security Treaty and the CIS. Hence the decision of the presidents of Belarus and Russia to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of our country. This is, unfortunately, a forced step aimed at cooling the hot heads of Western politicians.”
