nuclear weapons in neighboring belarus. cnn s clear back, sebastian following this for us, frightening situation that these weapons could be in belarus, for many living close to their yes, this is something that caused quite a lot of international alarm when it was announced towards the end of march, president putin saying that he was going to deploy tactical nuclear weapons is a difference of obviously between tactical and strategic strategic, designed to knock out a whole city tactical limited battlefield use but still very much undermines the claims by lukashenka that he s not going to get involved. in this conflict. he then came out and welcomed it. and then he suggested that russia could even play strategic weapons on belarus if they wanted to. so this meeting today, going to be very closely scrutinized for any clues as to how that situation is going to develop, and especially because there is i think, some element perhaps, of counterprogramming here, belarus has served that purpo
moment belarus is actually overlooked. and maybe not all the politicians understand the role of builders in regional peace and security. and i really want that you re saying prison band biden instead department to look more deeply into this problem and not to leave buildings for one day later, you know, after real deal with ukraine, and then we will return to belarus. we don t have to forget that person. people now are fighting not only against lukashenko s regime but also against hybrid occupation of russia in bill rose, we see the increase in the level of violence repressions. thousands of people are in prisons for political motivated cases. hundreds of thousands head to flee belarus because of repressions and. one day we can wake up and see that builds has lived his consolation prize for putin and i m sure that belarus is key state for keeping security in europe. you re in
several steps have been made recently by the usa just a new package of sanctions and yeah. launch of strategic dialogue with democratic belarus was started and we proceed this step. also special envoy will be sent to democratic forces to all lithuania to make to build those bridges between our countries. i want to ask about your husband. he s serving an 18 year prison sentence simply for challenging lukashenko. you have not been able to speak to him. for i believe more than two years now. do you have any idea what his state of health is? and what is? prospects are for release so all our political prisoners, including my husband, iterated humiliated physical and moral in prisons, so they are in extremely poor position there, but they re keeping strong. they know that anderson society and international world are fighting
may actually use such weapons? i think that dictators in this difficult situation for them can make crazy steps, but i think the democratic world has to show that it will not be tolerated. and strong steps must be made to stop this. the steps from from fulfilling, as you know, putin has at times pressured the belarusian president lukashenko to supply forces and well weapons to help in his invasion of ukraine. it hasn t happened yet. do you believe it may happen now as the russian president makes plans to move nuclear weapons there, so actually, it s around perception that putin pushes lukashenka to do something. they are on the one side of this war there, collaborate question became full accomplice in this war and hateful feels all the orders of
potent the fact that burrows and troops haven t been central bill rose is not the merit of lukashenka. its merit of builders and people who are against but especially bills in this war, and our soldiers don t have antiques. iranian modes. they don t want to kill or to be killed on the battlefields for the ambitions of tourism servers. and lukashenka is responsible for crimes of aggression against ukraine, and he had to be called sponsor of terrorism and have have to be pro to count ability for this. you should remind people watching. they may not be aware, but you ran against lukashenko. president you say the election was stolen for you from you. and since then you pay the price. your husband is still held in a russian prison more than two years now, do you feel that the world is overlooking? russia s aggression in belarus. of course, there s a war in ukraine , but that belarus is not getting the attention it deserves. i think that at the