Putin said construction of the storage facility would be completed by July 1, and stressed that the weapons would be installed “without violating the obligations under the START Treaty.”
Moscow and Minsk agreed to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory. Russian President Vladimir Putin said this in an interview with the Russian TV channel 24, the Russian propaganda agency RIA Novosti wrote.
Putin said construction of the storage facility would be completed by July 1, and stressed that the weapons would be installed “without violating the obligations under the START Treaty.” According to him, the reason for such a step is the UK’s statement about the supply of ammunition with depleted uranium to Ukraine.
Putin also noted that Belarus “has long been asking to host Russian nuclear weapons” and added that “Moscow has been doing what the United States has been doing for ten years.”
The president of the aggressor country noted that the munitions with depleted uranium, which the West will transfer to Kiev, do not belong to weapons of mass destruction, but “one way or another they create radiation dust and are considered very dangerous.”
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