With our correspondent in Moscow, Jean Didier Revoin
“Ten aircraft 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 storage facility for tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus,” said Vladimir Putin.
The Russian President declared that on the one hand Moscow is not violating its international non-proliferation obligations and on the other hand the United States has been stationing its tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of its allies for decades.
Remarks following British will to supply depleted uranium shells to Ukraine. A topic on which Vladimir Putin also wanted to provide clarification. Russia has something to answer for. “Without exaggeration, we have hundreds of thousands of shells of this type that we are not currently using,” the Russian president warned.
A few days later, in his joint statement with Chinese President Xi Jinping, he said that a nuclear war should not be launched because there can be no victor.
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