{"id":127823,"date":"2025-02-26T12:38:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T09:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/127823\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"russias-upper-house-ratifies-security-guarantees-treaty-with-belarus","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/127823\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s upper house ratifies security guarantees treaty with Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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February 26, Pozirk<\/em>. <\/strong>Russia’s Federation Council has ratified a security guarantees treaty with Belarus one week after Russian MPs approved it, its website says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia and Belarus will “support each other by all means and methods agreed upon and permitted by international law as well as to take appropriate actions in the political, military and other spheres should there be a threat to the security of either party or the Union State as a whole,\u201d said Taimuraz Mamsurov of Russia’s upper house’s defense and security committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The treaty is concluded for 10 years with automatic extension for similar terms. It will enter into force after being ratified by both parties. Minsk has not yet announced the start of the ratification process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the deal in early December 2024. It provides for defending the Union State territory and border with \u201call available forces and means,\u201d including the use of Russian tactical nuclear weapons stationed in Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u0141uka\u0161enka and his officials openly support the Russian war against Ukraine. Minsk claims peaceful intentions and denies the Belarusian army\u2019s involvement in combat operations but allowed Russian troops to attack Ukraine from Belarus on multiple occasions and supplied arms to the Kremlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year, \u0141uka\u0161enka told journalists he did not regret allowing Russian troops to march through Belarus into Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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