Russia has finished deploying its tactical nuclear weapons to the border of Europe - Belarus.

At the invitation of the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko paid an official visit to Uzbekistan on February 7-9.

The ambassador of Belarus in Astana was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs due to the statements made by the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, about the Central Asian countries, particularly Kazakhstan, in an interview with the "Russia" TV channel. In his interview, Lukashenko claimed that "when something happened in Kazakhstan, he asked for help not from China, India or Pakistan, but from Minsk and Moscow. He also mentioned Uzbekistan in the interview.