Russia plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. This is what President Vladimir Putin says in a Russian television interview, reports the Reuters news agency. – There is nothing strange about this. The US has been doing it for decades, says Putin. According to the statement, Russia has moved ten aircraft capable of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus. – There is nothing strange about this. The US has been doing it for decades. They have long placed their tactical nuclear weapons in the territories of their allies, says Putin. According to Putin, the action should not violate the so-called non-proliferation agreement. – We are not handing over our nuclear weapons to Belarus, but placing them there, as the US is doing in Europe, Putin says. “Without exaggerating – we have hundreds” According to AFP, he further says that Russia will use ammunition with depleted uranium in the war, if Ukraine receives corresponding ammunition from the Western countries. – Russia obviously has what it takes to respond to that. Without exaggerating, we have hundreds of thousands of such cartridges. But we haven’t used them yet, says Putin. Depleted uranium is a by-product when uranium is enriched, and the fact that the substance is so heavy – heavier than lead – makes it useful in armor-piercing weapons.
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Putin’s message – places nuclear weapons in Belarus: “Has what it takes”
