Putin: Russia to station nuclear weapons in Belarus

Russia volition presumption tactical atomic weapons successful Belarus, President Vladimir Putin has said.

President Putin said the determination would not interruption atomic non-proliferation agreements and compared it to the US stationing its weapons successful Europe, according to Russian authorities media.

Moscow would not beryllium transferring power of its arms to Minsk, helium added.

The Belarusian authorities is simply a steadfast Kremlin state and protagonist of the penetration of Ukraine.

President Putin told Russian authorities tv connected Saturday that Belarusian person Alexander Lukashenko had agelong raised the contented of stationing tactical atomic weapons successful Belarus.

"There is thing antithetic present either," helium said. "Firstly, the United States has been doing this for decades. They person agelong deployed their tactical atomic weapons connected the territory of their allied countries."

Russia volition person completed the operation of a retention installation for tactical atomic weapons successful Belarus by 1 July, President Putin added.

A tiny fig of Iskander tactical rocket systems, which tin beryllium utilized to motorboat atomic weapons, person already been transferred to Belarus, President Putin said.

He did not specify erstwhile the weapons would beryllium transferred to Belarus. It volition beryllium the archetypal clip since the mid-1990s that Moscow volition person based atomic arms extracurricular the country.

The Soviet Union's illness successful 1991 meant weapons became based successful 4 newly-independent states - Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan - with the transportation of each warheads to Russia completed successful 1996.

President Putin's comments travel aft Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky renewed his plea for much subject enactment from his Western allies.

But successful an interview with a Japanese newspaper, President Zelensky said Ukraine could not motorboat a imaginable counter-offensive successful the eastbound of the state until further ammunition arrived.