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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday, agreement on the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weaponsthat is, short-range, on the territory of Belarus in response to the UK’s
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday, agreement on the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weaponsthat is, short-range, on the territory of Belarus in response to the UK’s statement about the supply of ammunition with depleted uranium to Ukraine.
“We have agreed with (President of Belarus Alexander) Lukashenko on the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. without violating the non-proliferation regime”Putin explained in an interview on television. Russia 24.
“As for our negotiations with Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko, the reason is the statement of the Deputy Minister of Defense of Great Britain about supply of ammunition with depleted uranium to Ukraine, which is somehow connected with nuclear technologies,” he said.
“Even apart from this statement, Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko has long raised deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus,” he added.
Putin explained that the construction of facilities for storing tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus would finished July 1st. These weapons will remain under Russian control.
In addition, he stressed that this batch of nuclear weapons does not violate non-proliferation agreements because the United States has had nuclear weapons in other countries for many years. Putin.
Belarus has Iskander tactical missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads and Russia already has up to ten combat aircraft with nuclear weapons stationed on the territory of Belarus.
For its part, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) denounced the announcement as an “extremely dangerous escalation” that can make it easier to use.
“The condemnation of all threats of nuclear weapons is of paramount importance at this time. (Nuclear Prohibition Treaty) The NPT is the most efficient way for any government to do this and raise the threshold for use. Parking, as Russia intends to do in Belarus, is completely unacceptable,” he wrote in Twitter Acting Executive Director of ICAN Daniel Högsta.
In addition, the organization emphasized that the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons prohibits the placement of this type of weapon in other countries.
ICAN also fears that misinterpreting a particular situation could lead to something “much worse” and with “catastrophic” humanitarian risks as it ensures that there is no response mechanism capable of handling this.
(According to information from Europe Press)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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