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The president of Belarus < /b>Alexandr Lukashenko stated on Monday that < /b>Russia has completed shipments of nuclear weapons tactics to your country, an initiative which raised great concern in the neighbor Polonia and in other nations in the region.
During a meeting of a Moscow-led economic bloc in St. Petersburg, Lukashenko said shipments were completed in October, but did not reveal details of how many weapons were sent or where. have been deployed.
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Tactical nuclear weapons, which are intended for use on the battlefield, are short-range and low-yield compared to much more powerful nuclear warheads mounted on long-range missiles. Russia stated that it would maintain control over those it sends to Belarus.
Alexandr Lukashenko has said that receiving Russian nuclear weapons in his country is intended to deter aggression from Poland, a member of NATO. Poland offers its neighbor Ukraine military, humanitarian and political support in its fight against the Russian invasion and participates in international sanctions on Russia and Belarus.
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Russian forces in Belarus invaded Ukraine from the north in the early days of the war, but there is no known involvement of Belarusian soldiers.