Lavrov Arrives in Minsk as Russia Frames Nuclear Weapons in Belarus as NATO Deterrent (opens in new tab)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov touched down in Minsk on Sunday for a two-day working visit with President Alexander Lukashenko and Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov — a trip Moscow formally linked, one day earlier, to a new security architecture that places nuclear weapons on Belarusian soil as a formal deterrent against NATO and Ukraine.