Moscow and Minsk rehearse launch of nuclear weapons deployed in Belarus

Russia and Belarus are rehearsing the launch of Russian tactical nuclear weapons as part of joint war games, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday.

State media quoted the Belarusian chief of staff as saying that the exercises also featured Russia’s Oreshnik hypersonic missile, which it test-fired last year in the war with Ukraine.

Russia and Belarus are wrapping up five days of war games, codenamed Zapad (West), in a