Ukraine would already be striking Russia with foreign long-range weapons if not for the change, Alexander Lukashenko believes
Russia made the right decision to amend its nuclear doctrine because it prevented a further escalation of the Ukraine conflict by Kiev’s Western backers, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said.
In late September, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that the country’s nuclear strategy should be changed to also consider aggression against Russia and its closest ally Belarus “by any non-nuclear state, but with the participation or support of a nuclear state,” as a “joint attack” that could trigger a nuclear response. The Kremlin announced a few days later that the new version of the doctrine had been finalized and is now going through the necessary procedures to become law.
“This doctrine should have been updated long ago,” Lukashenko said in an interview with Russia 2 channel correspondent Pavel…