Arming Ukraine with long-range missiles will push Putin 'nuclear'

Posted on 10/06/2023

Arming Ukraine with long-range missiles will push Putin ‘to put the nuclear red button on the table’, Belarus dictator Lukashenko warns

Putin’s closest ally Lukashenko appeared to be pleading for peace negotiations

Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko today cautioned the West not to turn his ally Vladimir Putin into a cornered Russian bear.

He issued a stark warning that arming Ukraine with long range missiles could lead to a devastating response from Moscow.

‘One gets the impression that the Americans are pushing the Russians to use the most terrible weapons,’ he warned on a visit to a military training facility in Brest region close to his NATO border with Poland.

‘Arming Volodymyr Zelensky and his army, equipping them with long-range missiles, even to a depth of 300 kilometres [186 miles].

‘Can you imagine?

Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko today cautioned the West not to turn his ally Vladimir Putin into a cornered Russian bear

He issued a stark warning that arming Ukraine with long range missiles could lead to a devastating response from Moscow

‘Powerful missiles will hit Russian territory to a depth of 300 kilometres.

‘Do you think the President of Russia and the military will calmly look at this?’

Apparently alluding to nuclear weapons, he said: warned: ‘The fanning of tensions and escalation will lead to a situation where they [Russia] will take the red button and put it on the table.’

Lukashenko – who is Putin’s closest international ally and entirely dependent on the Kremlin for his survival after massively falsifying a democratic presidential election in 2020 – appeared to be pleading for the world to wake up to the need for peace negotiations.

He said: ‘One gets the impression that the Americans are pushing the Russians to use the most terrible weapons’

He ,ade the warning on a visit to a military training facility in the Brest region close to his NATO border with Poland

He said it was time to ‘stop now’.

His call is hardly from a neutral perspective and may reflect that Putin is suffering setbacks – such as the enforced retreat of his Black Sea Fleet – that are humiliating and dangerous for the Russian leader.

‘The Russians are already actively defending in all directions. They are already attacking,’ he said.

‘The Ukrainians have nothing to fight with.

It came as Putin warned his ‘Satan 2’ intercontinental ballistic missile, pictured during testing, were ready for deployment

Putin threatens the West with total nuclear destruction in event of strike on Russia as he warns ‘Satan-2’ missiles are ready for use

‘Even if they have, they cannot restrain this power.

‘Therefore, we must stop now.

‘Otherwise, no-one will talk about this topic with the Ukrainians in a few months, nor with the West,’ he said.

He understood Zelensky’s demand for more weapons from the West, claiming the NATO countries had made him promises yet failed to deliver fully, he said.

‘Zelensky is behaving absolutely correctly, demanding help from Western partners.

‘The media portrayed him as a beggar.

‘Like, this is undignified – the President of Ukraine does nothing but beg for help from other states.

‘But he behaves absolutely correctly.

Emergency workers search for victims after a Russian rocket hit an apartment building in central Kharkiv on Friday

Rescuers sift through the wreckage in the city of Kharkiv, with a ten-year-old boy killed in the devastating attack

Destroyed cars stand amid debris in the central residential district hit by Russian Iskander missile on Friday in Kharkiv

Rescuers work at the site of a rocket attack on Kharkiv, Eastern Ukraine, on Friday

‘The United States identified Ukraine as a victim, promising it maximum support.

‘And the Ukrainian authorities agreed to this role.

‘What they promised is either not done on time, or they do not deliver what they promised.

‘Zelensky asks the question: ‘How can this be?’

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