Belarus—which played a critical role in ending last week’s aborted mutiny against the Kremlin by the leader of Russia’s Wagner Group—has returned to the spotlight.  
A key Russian ally, the country made headlines earlier this year when Moscow unveiled plans to station tactical nuclear weapons on Belarusian soil. 
On June 27, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko confirmed that a large number of Russian nuclear weapons have already been transferred to the country. 
“It’s surprising they have failed to spot them,” he was cited as saying by the BelTA news agency, presumably referring to Western intelligence agencies. 
Now, Minsk is hosting disgraced Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose short-lived rebellion on June 24 briefly appeared to threaten Moscow itself….