He vice president of Security Council of Russia, Dmitry Medvedevhas warned that his country could launch a preemptive nuclear strike in case Ukraine receives nuclear weapons, this extreme he did not rule out.
“There are inexorable laws of war. If there is (the supply of) nuclear weapons to Ukraine, a preemptive strike will have to be made,” he said. Medvedev during a visit to Vietnam, quoted today by the official Russian agency TASS. He added that the countries of the NATO they expand the types of weapons they send to Ukraine and that “the kyiv regime will probably be given (F-16) planes” and “maybe nuclear weapons.”
“But that will mean that missiles with nuclear charges will fall on them,” said Medvedev, president of Russia between 2008 and 2012 and current leader of United Russiahe kremlin party.
Transfer to Belarus
The ex-president’s statements come after the President of Belarus, Alexandr Lukashenko, announced on Thursday the beginning of the transfer of Russian tactical nuclear weapons to the territory of his country, neighboring Ukraine. lukashenko He refused to specify the number of nuclear warheads that his country will receive, although he assured that he had agreed with Russian President Vladimir Putin on all the details.
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“I am not going to reveal the number and its location. We have agreed to the deployment of nuclear weapons,” he said.
He Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, stressed that the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus does not mean the delivery of these to the allied country. “Russia does not transfer nuclear weapons to the Republic of Belarus: control over them and the decision to use them remains with the Russian side,” Shoigu stressed.