The longtime president of Belarus said Tuesday that his country would be ready to host Russian nuclear weapons if NATO moves U.S. atomic bombs from Germany to Eastern Europe.

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The Belarus strongman had previously been non-committal over his position regarding the status of Crimea.

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Lukashenko Says Crimea is Russian, Will Visit Peninsula With Putin

MOSCOW - Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday that the Crimean Peninsula, annexed by Moscow from Ukraine in 2014, was legally Russian territory, RIA news agency reported, in a reversal of his public stance. Belarus is a close ally of Russia, but did not recognise the peninsula as Russian after Moscow seized it in an annexation that drew condemnation and economic

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The migrant crisis on Poland’s border, which Western powers accuse Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko of engineering, caught international attention in November. But asylum seekers on the Poland-Belarus border aren’t alone in being shunted back and forth across Europe’s land and sea borders, say rights organizations and other monitors.

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Belarus ‘ready’ to receive nuclear weapons from Russia, Lukashenko says

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko recognised that Crimea became part of Russia following the referendum that was held there in 2014.
"We all understood that Crimea is de facto the Russian Crimea. After the referendum Crimea de jure became Russian too,” the Belarusian leader said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

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MOSCOW -- Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said he would ask Russian President Vladimir Putin to give nuclear weapons to Belarus if similar NATO systems are deployed to neighboring Poland. Read More

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Trevor FilsethBelarus, EurasiaBelarusian President Alexander Lukashenko visited a warehouse that provided housing migrants and informed them that Belarusian border guards would not attempt to stop them if they traveled West.

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