Russia announces deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus

With our correspondent in Moscow, Jean-Didier Revoin

« Ten planes are ready to use this type of weapon. From April 3, we will start training crews, and on July 1, we will complete the construction of a special warehouse for tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus said Vladimir Putin.

The Russian president explained that on the one hand that Moscow was not violating its international non-proliferation commitments, and on the other hand that the United States had been deploying its tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of its allies for decades. .

Remarks which follow the British will to deliver depleted uranium shells to Ukraine. A subject on which Vladimir Putin also wanted to provide some clarification. Russia has something to answer for. ” We have, without exaggeration, hundreds of thousands of shells of this type that we do not use at the moment “warned the Russian president.

Remarks made a few days following he said, in his joint statement with Chinese President Xi Jinping, that a nuclear war should not be started, because there might be no winner.

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