Alexander Lukashenko says Belarus and Russia are “not planning to threaten anyone” after wrapping up the end of five days of war drills.
The war games have unnerved some surrounding countries and prompted international concern as they coincided with Russian violations of Polish and Romanian airspace.
“We are practising everything there,” Lukashenko told Belarusian state agency Belta.
“They [the West] know this too, we are not hiding it. From firing conventional small arms to nuclear warheads.
“Again, we must be able to do all this. Otherwise, why would they be on Belarusian territory?
“But we are absolutely not planning to threaten anyone with this.”
The Belarusian defence ministry confirmed in a statement
that the use of tactical nuclear weapons had been rehearsed
along with the deployment of Russia’s intermediate-range
Oreshnik ballistic missile.
