Russia plans to place nuclear-capable ballistic missiles in Belarus, a NATO-neighboring Russian ally that housed the forces that invaded Ukraine and attacked Kyiv.
That missile placement would continue a trend of Russian President Vladimir Putin subordinating Belarus to his vision of a “union-state” led by the Kremlin while sending an ominous signal to NATO — perhaps especially Poland and Lithuania, whose borders separate Belarus from Kaliningrad, the Russian exclave near the Baltic Sea.
“The flow of information regarding their intention to stop transit from Russia to Kaliningrad via Belarus, to isolate Kaliningrad is increasing,” Lukashenko told Putin during the Saturday meeting, according to a translation from Belarusian state media."Listen, it is tantamount to the declaration of some war. Such actions are intolerable in modern conditions.”
“It is not the blockade that Russians are trying to portray that it is,” a European official said. “It will still be inconvenient for them — they [have] to ship these goods through other channels, but in a sense, we think that [inconvenience] is one of the reasons why the sanctions are adopted, because of what they are doing in Ukraine.
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