US denounces move, but says it has no intention of altering its position on strategic nuclear weapons. Read more at straitstimes.com.
whose leader said the warheads were already on the move, in the Kremlin’s first deployment of such bombs outside Russia since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union.
The plan for the nuclear deployment was announced by Mr Putin in an interview with state television on March 25. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said that tactical nuclear weapons were already on the move in accordance with an order signed by Mr Putin, though there was no confirmation of that from the Kremlin itself.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller described the plans as “the latest example of irresponsible behaviour that we have seen from Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine over a year ago”. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Belarusian Defence Minister Viktor Khrenin sign documents regarding the nuclear weapons, in Minsk. PHOTO: EPA-EFEMr Putin has repeatedly warned that Russia, which has more nuclear weapons than any other country, will use all means to defend itself, and he has cast the Ukraine war as a battle for the survival of Russia against an aggressive West.
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