Putin Warns, Russia Poised to Deploy , Tactical Nuclear Weapons.
On June 9, President Vladimir Putin
said that Russia will deploy tactical
nuclear weapons to Belarus in early July.
NBC reports that this is the first time
Moscow has moved nuclear weapons outside
of Russia since the Soviet Union fell in 1991.
According to Putin, the weapons
will be deployed once special storage
facilities have been completed. .
Preparation of the relevant facilities
ends on July 7-8, and we will
immediately begin activities related
to the deployment of appropriate
types of weapons on your territory, Vladimir Putin, Russian President, via NBC.
Putin went on to claim the United States
and its allies' efforts to arm Ukraine
are part of a proxy war against Russia.
NBC reports that Putin, who claims the war
is a response to NATO expansion, warned that Russia
would deploy tactical nuclear weapons in March.
NBC reports that Putin, who claims the war
is a response to NATO expansion, warned that Russia
would deploy tactical nuclear weapons in March.
In response, NATO and China have both
repeatedly cautioned Moscow on the use
of nuclear weapons in the conflict in Ukraine.
In response, NATO and China have both
repeatedly cautioned Moscow on the use
of nuclear weapons in the conflict in Ukraine.
However, both Putin and Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky have firmly
stated that they are unwilling to back down. .
However, both Putin and Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky have firmly
stated that they are unwilling to back down. .
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union,
vast numbers of Soviet nuclear arms were returned
from newly independent republics to Russia.
NBC points out that only the U.S. has ever unleashed the
power of nuclear weapons in a conflict, dropping atomic
bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki