Belarus, Russia’s closest ally and a staunch supporter of Moscow’s attack on Ukraine, will not hesitate to deploy nuclear weapons if it feels threatened by “crazies in the West,” the country’s president Aleksandr Lukashenko has warned.
In an interview with state-controlled news agency Belta on Thursday, Lukashenko—who has been Belarus’s head of state since 1994—said his country would “deliver an unacceptable strike” on any force believed to have threatened its territorial integrity.
