MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he would deploy tactical nuclear arms in Belarus, western media reported on Saturday. The Russian President has repeatedly issued lightly indirect fears that he could utilize nuclear arms during war in Ukraine, stimulating Cold War time fears.
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President Putin said that he would also deploy depleted uranium ammunition if Russia received such ammunitions from the Western countries after a British suggestion that it could supply Kyiv.
Putin said that there is nothing news, the US has been doing this practice for decades. Washington has long placed their tactical nuclear arms on the territory of their coalition partners.
The Russian President said that he talked to Belarusian leader A and they agreed over the matter. On the question of how Russia would respond if the West provided Kyiv with exhausted uranium shells, after a suggestion by the UK it could supply Russia with the munitions, Russian President said they had huge quantities of the arsenal.
“Moscow of course has what it wants to answer. Without overstatement, Russia has over hundreds of thousands of such type shells. Russia has not yet used them,” President Putin said in an interview on TV.
The International drive to Abolish Nuclear Weapons had warned nuclear threats were creating a very dangerous sense of uncertainty around its possible use.
President Putin had announced in February that Moscow would suspend its participation in New START treaty. The NATO chief criticized Russia for suspending the treaty with the US, adding it marked the close of Europe’s post-Cold War weapons control construction.
The announcement made following Moscow in last August suspended the US inspections of their military sites as per agreement of New START.
