President Alexander Lukashenko with Russian chief Vladimir Putin (Image: AP)

The president of Belarus has warned the Kremlin will use nuclear guns if it fears cave in.  

Speaking at an annual address to Belarusian lawmakers and different officials, President Alexander Lukashenko claimed each his country and Russia were under direct threat of assault from the West. 

The Belarusian leader said: ‘Take my phrase for it, i’ve never deceived you. The West are preparing to invade Belarus, to damage our united states.’

Declining to offer evidence to fortify those claims, he delivered: ‘it is not possible to defeat a nuclear energy.

‘If the Russian leadership is familiar with that the location threatens to lead to Russia’s disintegration, it is going to use probably the most terrible weapon.’

Mr Lukashenko’s cope with comes after President Vladimir Putin introduced plans to station tactical nuclear guns in Belarus.

this will mark the first time Moscow has deployed such missiles outdoor Russian borders because the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union.

Mr Lukashenko has warned that the West plans to ‘invade’ each Belarus and Russia (Picture: AP)

Concerns have also been raised those weapons is also observed through missiles able to making intercontinental moves at a few element within the future. 

A longstanding best friend of the Kremlin, Belarus has not formally entered the warfare in Ukraine, which has lasted for greater than a year and observed heaps killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. 

It has however provided a crucial launchpad for Russian army forces engaged in the battle, whilst additionally ceaselessly conducting joint army coaching workouts with Russian troops. 

Mr Lukashenko’s statements additionally come after an analyst with Ukraine’s presidential research group said the Russian president has been left in a ‘desperate’ scenario by way of the failures of the Russian invasion thus far.

Mykola Bielieskov, a research fellow on the National Institute for Strategic Studies beneath Volodymyr Zelensky, stated lately: ‘Ukraine is the largest failure in Putin’s occupation, when he wanted his largest success to be a brand new Russian empire.’

Mr Bielieskov delivered that with the ongoing improve of Western allies, it’s imaginable that Ukraine may be capable of power Kremlin troops out of occupied territories as early because the 2nd or third quarter of this year.

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