Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya: “Lukashenka is once again putting the lives of Belarusians at risk. Step by step, he is drawing the country into nuclear blackmail: first, the nuclear-free status was removed from the Constitution; then came the announcement of the deployment of nuclear weapons and the Oreshnik missile system; next, joint exercises on the use of nuclear weapons were launched.
Today, Russia is openly saying that its weapons are stationed on Belarusian soil. And it is evident that control over them will remain in Moscow.
Propagandists portray Lukashenka as a guarantor of sovereignty. But how can someone be a guarantor of peace and independence when he has effectively turned our country into a target for retaliation against the threats Putin directs at neighboring states?
There can be no peaceful sky with foreign nuclear weapons on our land. Belarus must be free of them”.
