Mr Lukashenko said that "the bombs are three times more powerful than those [dropped on] Hiroshima and Nagasaki and reiterated that he had' demanded' Mr Putin provide him with the weapons.
The close ally of Vladimir Putin was speaking to the Russian state TV channel Rossiya-1 on a road in a forest clearing with military vehicles and a storage facility visible in the background.
Moscow has not deployed warheads outside of Russia since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. The interview was posted on the Belarusian Belta state news agency's Telegram channel yesterday.
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