Lukashenko: Putin's Nuclear Doctrine Shift 'Cooled Down the Hotheads'

In an interview with Russia’s Channel 2 on Oct. 13, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that Russia’s President Putin had made the right decision to announce a change in Russia’s nuclear doctrine, allowing Russia to respond with nuclear weapons against a nuclear power using a non-nuclear “proxy” to attack inside Russia. The change defined such an attack as “a joint attack” against Russia and/or Belarus “by any non-nuclear state, but with the participation or support of a nuclear state.”