MINSK, May 28. /TASS/. The West has left Belarus no choice other than deploy Russian tactical nuclear weapons on its territory, Secretary of Belarus’ Security Council Alexander Volfovich said on Sunday.

"The West has simply left no other options for Belarus," he said in an interview with the ONT television channel.

In the 1990s, "the West, first of all the United States, guaranteed security and the absence of any sanctions against Belarus, but it has broken its promises now," he explained.

"If there is still any reason in the heads of Western politicians, they will not cross this red line," he said. "Because the use of even tactical nuclear weapons will entail irreversible consequences. Of course, this will be the last, but justified step to defend our country. We don’t want anything that doesn’t belong to us but will not give up anything our own."

"By pursuing its policy of ignoring the interests of other states, the United States is seeking to provoke hotbeds of tension around Russia," he said, citing as an example the escalation on the Tajik-Afghan border, on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and in Moldova.

On March 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that at Minsk’s request, Moscow would deploy its tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, similar to what the United States had long been doing on the territory of its allies. As the Russian leader pointed out, the construction of storage facilities for tactical nuclear weapons will be completed in Belarus by July 1. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Mau 25 that non-strategic nuclear weapons have begun to be moved from Russia to the territory of Belarus.