The Presidents of Lithuania and Poland believe that only the United States and NATO can stop the deployment of Russia’s nuclear arsenal in Belarus

The deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus, which Alexander Lukashenko is ready to accept, can only be stopped by a decisive response from the US and NATO. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda, who expressed their position after a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are sure of this, UNIAN reports.

According to Andrzej Duda, such a decision will become another demonstration of “Russian aggression”, while Minsk is unlikely to force Moscow to change its position.

In turn, Gitanas Nauseda believes that the Russian Federation “can do whatever it wants,” which became clear after the results of last year’s presidential elections in Belarus. The lack of effective action on the part of NATO, which is obliged to confront a hypothetical Russian threat, could be a “big mistake.”

At the end of November, amid another aggravation between Russia, Belarus and the collective West, Alexander Lukashenko announced his readiness to deploy Russian nuclear weapons in his country if NATO takes the same actions on Polish territory. A similar statement was made by the head of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry Vladimir Makei, who believes that Ukraine is becoming a NATO bridgehead against the Russian Federation. Earlier, the President of Belarus repeatedly regretted that in the 1990s he agreed to transfer the republic’s nuclear weapons to the Russian Federation, and called this decision a “strategic mistake.”