Russia said on Monday it would practise the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons as part of a military exercise after what Moscow said were threats from France, Britain and the U.S.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that there was nothing unusual in a planned exercise involving the practice deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in southern Russia along with ally Belarus.it would practise the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons as part of a military exercise after what Moscow said were threats from France, Britain and the United States.
Putin said last year that Moscow had transferred some tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, Russia’s first move of such warheads outside Russia since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, speaking alongside Putin, said that this was the third such training exercise.
Russia has about 1,558 non-strategic nuclear warheads, according to the Federation of American Scientists, though there is uncertainty about exact figures for such weapons due to a lack of transparency.
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