RT: Ukraine pushing Russia to use nuclear weapons – Belarus

Murray Hunter


RT: Ukraine pushing Russia to use nuclear weapons – Belarus

Kiev may have launched its Kursk incursion to provoke a drastic response by Moscow, President Alexander Lukashenko believes

Aug 19, 2024




FILE PHOTO: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. © Sputnik / Valery Sharifulin

Comment: This is not the only warning that is coming out of Russia. The former Russian president and prime minister Dmitry Medvedev (good cop bad cop act with Putin) has given a number of warnings. 

The biggest problem is the legacy media is not picking up this news and disseminating it to the ‘west’. After the madness of the last few years during Covid, and seeing the US withdraw from Afghanistan, how much can western leaders be trusted. They are not making any effort to calm down and stabilize the situation.

The support for Ukraine by the ‘west’ has a great cost in the lives of young Ukrainians. Many raise the Ukrainian flag outside their house for support, but don’t have to send their children to die on some Ukrainian field in a war that is going nowhere. This has only been prolonging an unnecessary war.

The world is closer to nuclear war than ever before. This is not just my opinion. This is also the opinion of the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The metaphorical “Doomsday clock” is now 90 seconds to midnight, the closest the world has come to nuclear war since 1945.

The west must relearn diplomacy before something catastrophic occurs.




Ukraine’s incursion into internationally recognized Russian territory looks like an attempt to compel Moscow to use nuclear weapons, which would irrevocably damage its image globally, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said.

In an interview with Russia-1 aired on Sunday, Lukashenko warned that Kiev’s operation in Kursk Region – the largest cross-border assault by Kiev since the outbreak of the conflict – posed enormous risks to global security.

“The danger is that this kind of escalation on the part of Ukraine is an attempt to push Russia into asymmetric actions, for example, the use of nuclear weapons,” the Belarusian leader said, adding that such a move would be a PR bonanza for both Kiev and its Western backers.

“Then we would probably have hardly any allies left. There would be no sympathetic countries left at all,” he noted, explaining that this reaction would be based on the universal aversion to the fallout that could be caused by nuclear weapons.

Lukashenko also responded to statements by Ukrainian officials that the Kursk incursion was aimed at improving Kiev’s diplomatic position for possible talks with Russia. This plan is “a classic, but it does not work in a struggle against a great empire that has not even begun to fight in earnest,” he argued, adding he was sure that the Ukrainians would eventually be expelled from Kursk Region.

According to its current nuclear doctrine, Russia can deploy its nuclear arsenal only “in response to the use of nuclear and other types of weapons of mass destruction against it or its allies, and also in case of aggression against Russia with the use of conventional weapons when the very existence of the state is threatened.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said on several occasions that there is no need to use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine campaign. Moscow has warned that it may change its nuclear doctrine, but said that any changes would be in response to what it perceives as escalatory moves by NATO.

Originally published in RT 18th August 2024