US nuclear weapons in Poland would be priority military target \u2013 Moscow<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\nThe president likewise hailed the recent deployment of Russian nuclear missiles in the country. While the Russian nukes are tactical, rather than strategic, they perfectly fit the Belarusian doctrine of having the capability to inflict unacceptable military damage to deter potential adversaries, Lukashenko explained.<\/p>\n
“[The nukes] must stay on Belarusian soil,”<\/em> he stressed.<\/p>\nThe deployment of nuclear weapons to Belarus was announced by President Vladimir Putin early last year in an apparent response to the UK’s decision to provide Ukraine with depleted uranium munitions.<\/p>\n
Minsk had repeatedly requested such deployments in the past, citing aggressive Western policies towards Belarus and the perceived threat posed by US nuclear weapons in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says he once had an intimate moment with a nuclear warhead Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has revealed he once got up-close and personal with a “strategic nuclear warhead” and actually hugged it. The president made the remarks on Thursday at the All-Belarusian People’s Assembly, a major gathering of top officials and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}