2023-06-09 20:39:36
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Friday that his country will start Deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus After the completion of the readiness of the special facilities on the seventh and eighth of July, this will be the first time that Moscow has deployed these warheads outside Russia since the collapse of the former Soviet Union.
Putin said in March that he had given the green light to deploy such weapons in Belarus and noted that the United States had already deployed tactical nuclear weapons in a range of European countries decades ago.
“Everything is going according to plan,” Putin told his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, during discussions at Putin’s summer residence in Sochi on the Black Sea.
Putin continued What was stated in a text issued by the Kremlin To his statements: “The preparations of the relevant facilities will end on July 7-8 and we will immediately start activities regarding the deployment of appropriate types of weapons on the territory of your country (Belarus). Lukashenko replied, “Thank you…”.
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More than 15 months following the outbreak The largest land war in Europe since World War IIPutin says the United States and its Western allies are supplying weapons to Ukraine as part of an expanded proxy war aimed at subjugating Russia.
The 70-year-old Russian president sees the war in Ukraine as a battle for his country’s survival once morest what he describes as an endless expansion of NATO. The West has repeatedly warned that its country will not back down.
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