They will put a red button on the table: the Russian Federation can "make" nuclear weapons - Lukashenko

The Belarusian politician believes that the United States allegedly pushes the environment and push the Kremlin for extreme measures. The United States with their steps that lead to escalation can force Russia to "get the red button" and use nuclear weapons. This opinion was expressed by Alexander Lukashenko during his working visit to the Brest region on October 6, reports the Belarusian Channel "Pul of the First".

Lukashenko visited the educational object of the Ministry of Defense of Belarus "Knot of the Resistance", where he was shown the possibilities of engineering equipment of the knot of Kobryn fortress. Asked by the Belarusian politician that Washington allegedly pushed the Russians to go to extreme measures. "Putting, escalation will cause them to get a red button and put on the table," he said.

The statement of Lukashenko was preceded by repeated statements of officials of the Russian Federation on the escalation by Washington and Allies. For example, Russian Foreign Ministry representative Maria Zakharova stated that if the US approves the supply of Ukraine's long -range missiles with cassette bombs, it will lead to further escalation of the conflict and even greater victims.

"The supply of weapons is not just a destabilizing, but a provocative conflict," she said, answering journalists' questions. Nuclear rhetoric also sounds from Russian propagandists. Recall that on October 3, the editor -in -chief of Russia today Margarita Simonyan suggested "to carry out a nuclear explosion somewhere over Siberia. " According to her, such a nuclear strike will fail all radio electronics and all satellites, and in the other there will be no catastrophic consequences.