Ukraine’s Invasion of Kursk Prompts Russia to Launch Nuclear Bomb Attack

MOSCOW – President Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that the escalation from Ukraine was pushing Russia to take asymmetric actions, including the use of nuclear weapons.

“Ukraine’s escalation in the Kursk region is an attempt to push Russia to asymmetric actions, namely the use of nuclear weapons,” Lukashenko said, as reported by Sputnik.

He said the Iskander tactical ballistic missile system in Belarus is ready to fire missiles equipped with nuclear warheads.

“This is a machine that is currently ready to carry out a strike with tactical nuclear weapons… This is a machine that is ready to fire missiles with nuclear warheads,” Lukashenko said in an interview.

The Belarusian leader said Ukraine had deployed more than 120,000 troops on the Belarus-Ukraine border, a move that Minsk responded to by increasing troops along the border.

The Belarusian-Ukrainian border is mined as never before, the Ukrainian armed forces will be able to cross it only with heavy losses, Lukashenko added.

In addition, Ukrainian drones are constantly violating Belarus’ southeastern borders, Lukashenko added.

According to Lukashenko, the defense of Belarus’ western borders has been worked out by Minsk and Moscow, and if necessary, this plan can be turned into an offensive one.

Lukashenko said that negotiations on Ukraine should start from where they left off in Istanbul. “Let’s sit down at the negotiating table and stop this bickering – neither Ukrainians, nor Russians, nor Belarusians need it… We need to sit down at the negotiating table, the urgent question is where to start. The right thing is to start from where we left off in Istanbul,” Lukashenko said.

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