Russia has struck a cope with neighboring Belarus to station tactical nuclear weapons on its territory, President Vladimir Putin mentioned Saturday.
Such a transfer wouldn’t violate nuclear nonproliferation agreements, Putin mentioned, including that the USA had stationed nuclear weapons on the territory of European allies.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has lengthy raised the difficulty of stationing tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, which borders Poland, Putin mentioned.
“We agreed with Lukashenko that we might place tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus with out violating the nonproliferation regime,” Tass quoted Putin as saying.