MINSK, March 31. /TASS/. Minsk will control all weapons, deployed on Belarusian territory, President Alexander Lukashenko said Friday.
"You have asked a question that is not being discussed publicly," the president said, answering a reporter’s question on use of nuclear weapons. "This is a totally classified topic - how we will use it. As for management, control and so on of nuclear weapons… […] There are no unsupervised weapons in Belarus, and there cannot be any. So everything that is present in Belarus will be managed by us here."
On March 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia will deploy its tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus under the republic’s request, like the US do on their allies’ territory. Moscow has already handed over the Iskander system, which can launch missiles with nuclear payload. According to the president, a storage facility for tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus will be complete by July 1.