President Vladimir Putin says a plan to move nuclear weapons outside Russia for the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union is on track for completion.
The Russian president said on Friday they would be moved as soon as storage facilities are made ready in early July.Russia will start deploying tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus once special storage facilities are made ready, President Vladimir Putin says, Moscow's first move of such warheads outside Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union., pointing to the US deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in a host of European countries over many decades.
"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," Mr Putin said, according to a Kremlin transcript of his remarks.Russia has been accused of 'ecocide' over the destruction of a Ukrainian dam. What is it?
The US has criticised Mr Putin's nuclear deployment but has said it has no intention of altering its position on strategic nuclear weapons and also thatRussian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.The war in Ukraine has triggered what both Moscow and Washington say is the deepest crisis in relations since the depths of the Cold War, with major nuclear arms control treaties unravelling and both sides denouncing the other in public.
Russian Sukhoi Su-25 strike fighters pictured in 2016. Belarus says this type of aircraft has been adapted to carry nuclear warheads.Mr Putin, who is the ultimate decision maker on any nuclear launch, said Iskander mobile short-range ballistic missiles, which can deliver nuclear warheads, had already been handed over to Belarus. Russian sources say the Iskander has a range of 500km.
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