Alexander Lukashenko said on Channel One that the movement of non-strategic nuclear weapons from Russia to Belarusian territory has already begun. According to him, Russian President Vladimir Putin has already informed the Belarusian side that he has signed a decree regarding this step.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the retaliatory measures of Moscow and Minsk in the military-nuclear sphere do not violate the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Earlier, the heads of the Ministry of Defense of Russia and Belarus signed documents defining the content of Russia's nuclear weapons on Belarusian soil.