Probably… “drugged” was his comment Alexander Lukashenko during his meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow. The Belarusian president remarked that his host “is a bit tired”, but Putin, despite appearing momentarily taken aback, managed to react.

The dialogue of the peculiar Alexander Lukashenko with the rather embarrassed Vladimir Putin, as recorded by the cameras:

  • Lukashenko: You’re fine, you just look tired!
  • Putin: Please!
  • Lukashenko: No, tired president…
  • Putin: It’s okay, I have to pay my salary.

The Russian president he did not discuss the deployment of Russian strategic nuclear weapons – that is, intercontinental ballistic missiles – to Belarus in the talks he had with the president of Belarus today in Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov clarified, according to the Interfax news agency.

Putin announced last month that Russia would deploy shorter-range, “tactical” nuclear weapons on its neighbor’s soil, a move Moscow says was forced by the expansion of the NATO military alliance to Russia’s borders. .