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“In any case, it is decided by our American partners, the NATO partners, but we want that decision to be made as soon as possible,” he added.
The program Nuclear Sharing permite a Washington place your nuclear weapon in the Atlantic Alliance countries that do not possess such weapons. The United States already stocks up to 100 warheads for tactical nuclear weapons in several European nations and in Turkey.
In the North American country, the Polish request was taken with caution. John Kirby, spokesman for the White House National Security Council, assured this June 30 that he has nothing to share or say in relation to said proposal.
Kirby also acknowledged that the Pentagon has detected no indication that Moscow intends to use tactical or strategic nuclear weapons inside Ukraine or on the European mainland.
According to Putin, it is not a question of a transfer of nuclear weapons to Belarusian soil —which would mean a violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty—, but of their location. In addition, the Russian president recalled that the United States has spent years placing nuclear weapons in various countries within the framework of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), such as Germany, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey.
The construction of a Russian tactical nuclear weapons silo in Belarus will end on July 1.
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