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Ukraine Invasion Day 236: if Belarus launches Russian tactical nukes, who gets counter-attacked? [1]
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Date: 2022-10-16
"The Russian foreign ministry has confirmed the re-equipping of Belarusian Su-25 aircraft to carry nuclear weapons, according to the Belarusian Hajun project."
What if Belarusian jets originate from Crimea to fire Russian tactical nuclear weapons on Ukraine?
The Kremlin signals not only that it would use proxies to deliver but also receive the proportional response from Ukraine and NATO in a vain hope to avoid the inevitable counter-attack.
x The big Ukrainian offensive on Kherson appears to have started, apparently along the Dnipro.
Meanwhile, the Russians try to force Lukashenka to order his troops to attack Ukraine, but Belarusians are likely to rebel & newly mobilized Russian soldiers are just cannon fodder. — Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) October 15, 2022
Ukrainian forces have repelled Russian attacks near 11 settlements , the Kyiv Independent has reported. According to the general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces, Russian forces were attempting to advance near the settlements of Novosadove, Yakovlivka, Berestove, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Opytne, Krasnohorivka, Nevelske, Pervomaiske, Mariinka, and Pobieda.
France will train up to 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers on its territory , France’s minister for the armed forces told Le Parisien newspaper in an interview on Saturday. Sebastien Lecornu said soldiers would “be taken into our units for several weeks”, and that France would also provide Ukraine with Crotale air defence systems, without specifying how many.
Iran has reiterated that it rejects accusations it has supplied Russia with weapons “to be used in the war in Ukraine” , its foreign ministry said. The topic is due to be discussed by EU foreign ministers in a meeting in Luxembourg on Monday. In a statement, the Iranian foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, “emphasised that the Islamic republic of Iran has not and will not provide any weapon to be used in the war in Ukraine”.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence has revealed the identity of the “Ghost of Vinnytsia” who had replaced the “Ghost of Kyiv” , which turned out to be propaganda. The pilot, named as Vadym, has been Ukraine’s poster fighter in the past few weeks after multiple reports of Russian losses in Ukrainian skies.
A fuel depot in Russia’s Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, caught fire after shelling on Saturday, its governor said, without specifying the shelling’s origin.
The Russian foreign ministry has confirmed the re-equipping of Belarusian Su-25 aircraft to carry nuclear weapons, according to the Belarusian Hajun project.
Ukrainian troops have launched an offensive in Kherson oblast, the Kyiv Independent reported, while it has not been confirmed by Ukraine. www.theguardian.com/…
Moscow has said that it will equip the Belarusian warplanes with nuclear missile capability as Russian soldiers arrived in their neighbouring country on Saturday. The Kremlin insisted that the manoeuvres were part of a defensive operation but some commentators believe that Vladimir Putin is trying to draw Belarus into his war with Ukraine by sending troops there. Russia’s defence ministry said the decision to send soldiers to Belarus for the first time since March was “dictated by the ongoing activity in the areas bordering us.” The Belarusian border, which lies 140 miles from Kyiv, was used as a launchpad for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February. On Saturday, the Russian foreign ministry said it would equip Belarusian Su-25 warplanes with the capability to carry nuclear-capable missiles but that it was not yet arming Minsk with the missiles. Belarus does not have any nuclear missiles of its own and its army of around 50,000 is not regarded as an effective force by defence experts. www.msn.com/…
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