Moscow and Minsk agreed to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus. Russian President Vladimir Putin said this in an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin on the Russia 24 TV channel, the TASS propaganda agency reports.
Putin clarified that the construction of the storage facility will end on July 1. He assures that weapons will be deployed without violating the obligations under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
According to Putin, the reason for such a step was the statement of Great Britain about the supply of ammunition with depleted uranium to Ukraine.
"As for our negotiations with Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (the self-proclaimed president of Belarus - ed.), the reason was the statement of the Deputy Minister of Defense of Great Britain that they are going to supply Ukraine with depleted uranium charges, it is in one way or another connected with nuclear technologies. Even outside the context of these events, this statement, Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko has long raised the question of deploying Russian tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus."
"We have already transferred to Belarus our well-known, very effective Iskander complex, it can also be a carrier. From April 3, we will start training the crew and on July 1 we will finish the construction of a special storage for tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus."
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