Lukashenko Explains How Putin's Nuclear Doctrine Shift 'Cooled Down the Hotheads'

In an interview with Russia’s Channel 2 on Oct. 13, President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko said that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin had made the right decision to announce a change in Russia’s nuclear doctrine on Sept. 25, allowing Russia to respond with nuclear weapons against a nuclear power using a non-nuclear “proxy” to attack inside Russia. Putin explained to his semi-annual “Meeting of the Security Council Standing Conference on Nuclear Deterrence that: “The updated version of the document is supposed to regard an aggression against Russia from any non-nuclear state but involving or supported by any nuclear state as their joint attack against the Russian Federation.”