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Sergei Tikhanovsky, husband of Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, was unexpectedly released from prison and moved to Lithuania, amid diplomatic talks involving US envoy Keith Kellogg, marking a rare positive development in Belarus's ongoing political repression.
Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has criticized the West for ignoring Russia's deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, warning that the bombs are now "in the hands of a crazy dictator." Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko announced on Tuesday that his country has started taking delivery of Moscow's tactical warheads as part of a deal the two allied nations had signed last month. The US has criticized Putin's decision to deploy the warheads in Belarus but has said it has no intention of altering its own stance on strategic nuclear weapons.
Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has warned of the danger of transferring nuclear weapons from Russia into "the hands of a crazy dictator" in Belarus, after Alexander Lukashenko confirmed that the first "missiles and bombs" had arrived in the country. Belarus gave up its nuclear arsenal in the 1990s in return for security guarantees from post-Soviet Russia and the West. This is the first deployment of tactical nuclear weapons outside of Russia since the collapse of the USSR in 1991.