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The nuclear arsenal is like a Trojan horse, she said at the event: Russia can use it to justify sending more troops there.<\/p>\n<p>She reiterated her call for a UN discussion of Russia&#8217;s nuclear move and more sanctions on Moscow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 13, BPN. Unnamed participants in a debate in Vilnius involving western diplomats have said Russia will receive a retaliatory strike if its nuclear weapons are launched from Belarus. The remark cannot be attributed because of the debate rules. Belarusian opposition leader \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja&#8217;s office initiated the event, which took place yesterday during a NATO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-47623","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vilnius debate: Russia to face retaliatory strike if nukes launched from Belarus | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"July 13, BPN. 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