“These draft constitutional changes may indicate plans to allow the deployment of both conventional and nuclear forces of Russia on the territory,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.

According to an unnamed State Department official, the proposed changes to the constitution allegedly include language that could be interpreted "as opening the way for Russia to deploy garrison forces on the territory of Belarus."

“Discussions about nuclear weapons in Belarus Lukashenka began in November.

He talked about it,” the department said.

In November 2021, Alexander Lukashenko said that Belarus is ready to place Russian nuclear weapons on its territory in the event that the NATO alliance supplies nuclear weapons to Poland.