President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko emphasized: “The world has lost its mind and is exploding with conflicts. How will it all end? Ordinary people, even those far from politics, are thinking more and more. for the first time is on the verge of entering into a nuclear conflict”, noting that “the current time is not easy”.

Lukashenka explained at a national forum dedicated to the National Unity Day of Belarus that “the United States is pushing Europe towards a military confrontation with Russia on the territory of Ukraine, they do not hide their plans, deals have already been made for years to come, that is, they will tear Ukraine to pieces, and the goal is to weaken Russia and the destruction of Belarus.

Lukashenko stated that “America is the only country that benefits from what is happening here, putting Europe in its current place and removing competitors, today Ukraine, and tomorrow it will be Moldova, the Baltic States, Poland or Romania”, noting that Washington ” ignites a war in Kosovo, and tries to put pressure on Serbia, kindling a fire in the flaring up contradictions in Kara-Bag, disturbing the waters in Syria, and in Afghanistan and its neighboring countries, everything is not easy, since Washington is present in all important political conflicts.

Earlier in the day, US President Joe Biden said: “We warn Russia against using nuclear weapons in the war against Ukraine.”

In this context, the American newspaper The New York Times, citing US officials, reported that there were fears that Russian President Vladimir Putin would resort to a “demonstration nuclear explosion”, stressing that “there is no evidence that Putin is in the process of transfer of nuclear weapons.

When asked about the possibility of Russia using nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the press secretary of the Russian president (Kremlin) Dmitry Peskov replied that everything is mentioned in Russia’s nuclear doctrine.

On September 3, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Sergei Ryabkov said that Russia could use nuclear weapons if its existence is in danger, and this is present in the Russian military doctrine, noting: “I remind you that the Russian military doctrine, as well as documents such policy in the field of nuclear deterrence”, they comprehensively defined all the scenarios in which we could theoretically use nuclear weapons. Such scenarios of aggression against Russia and its allies with the use of weapons of mass destruction or aggression with the use of conventional weapons, when the very existence of the country is threatened.”