{"id":295712,"date":"2024-09-29T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=295712"},"modified":"2024-09-30T07:47:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T07:47:09","slug":"putin-ally-issues-nuclear-warning-to-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=295712","title":{"rendered":"Putin Ally Issues Nuclear Warning to NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alia Shoaib \u2013 NEWSWEEK.com Sept 27, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko warned that nuclear weapons would be used against NATO if it attacked either his nation or Russia.<\/p>\n

Belarus does not have nuclear weapons of its own, but it has been hosting Russian tactical warheads on its territory since last year, amid Moscow’s ongoing war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Lukashenko, a staunch ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a>, made the warning while speaking at an event with students in Minsk, the Belarusian capital, on Friday.<\/p>\n

He warned that an attack on Belarus would be “World War Three” and that NATO<\/a> troops crossing its border would be a “red line,” according to the country’s national news agency Belta.<\/p>\n

The Belarusian leader said that Russia’s nuclear doctrine had been amended to state that nuclear weapons would be used in the event of an attack on either country.<\/p>\n

“As I said at the patriotic forum [held on 17 September], an attack against Belarus will trigger World War III. Recently, Vladimir Putin has confirmed it, having amended the nuclear doctrine. An attack on Russia and Belarus will trigger a nuclear response,” Lukashenko<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

“If we use nuclear weapons, they will do the same. And against Russia too. So Russia will use the entire arsenal of weapons. This will be a world war. The West does not want this. They are not ready for it. We tell them openly: the red line is the state border. You step on it, we will respond immediately. We are preparing for this,” Lukashenko said, according to the Belarusian outlet.<\/p>\n

Newsweek<\/em> reached out to the Belarusian Foreign Ministry and the Russian Ministry of Defense for comment via email.<\/p>\n

Ever since Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, fears of an escalation into nuclear warfare have been mounting.<\/p>\n

Putin recently amped up his warnings saying Wednesday that Russia was widening its rules for nuclear weapon use<\/a>, as Lukashenko referenced.<\/p>\n

This was the Russian leader’s strongest warning yet, <\/a>following Ukraine being permitted to launch strikes deep into Russian territory using long-range missiles provided by the West.<\/p>\n

Russia also last week warned the West and Ukraine of “disastrous consequences” if Ukraine moved to attack Belarus, with a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson citing increasingly “provocative” activity on the border with Belarus.<\/p>\n

Belarus began amassing troops<\/a> on its border with Ukraine in August, which it said was due to the presence of Ukrainian soldiers around the border, raising military tensions between the two nations.<\/p>\n

Lukashenko has avoided direct involvement in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, but has allowed Putin to use Belarusian territory as a staging post for attacks on Kyiv.<\/p>\n

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