The Russian President plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. This decision was justified by the desire of London to send ammunition with depleted uranium to Kiev.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that Moscow would deploy “tactical” nuclear weapons on the territory of its ally Belarus, a country just outside the European Union.
“There is nothing unusual here: the United States has been doing this for decades. It has long deployed its tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of its allies,” Vladimir Putin said in an interview broadcast on Russian television.
“We agreed to do the same,” he added, saying he had the Minsk agreement.
“From April 3 we will start training crews. And on July 1 we will complete the construction of a special storage facility for tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus,” he added.
Depleted uranium shells
According to Vladimir Putin, this decision was motivated by London’s desire to send depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine, as recently mentioned by a British official.
The Russian President has threatened to use these types of shells if Kiev receives them.
“Russia, of course, has something to answer for. Without exaggerating, we have hundreds of thousands of such shells. We are not using them at the moment,” he said.