Putin announces the arrival of the first tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus

The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, said Friday that the first tactical nuclear weapons have already reached belarus in a process that will end with its deployment in the neighboring country at the latest by the end of the year.

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“The first nuclear charges have already reached belarus. Until the end of the summer, the end of the year, all this process will be over. But it is a deterrent measure.”stressed putin in it Economic Forum International of St. Petersburg.

A week ago, Putin said that the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory would start from July 7 or 8.

The defense ministers of Russia, Sergei Shoiguand of belarus, Victor Jreninsigned at the end of May in Minsk the documents regulating the storage of non-strategic nuclear weapons on the territory of the former Soviet republic.

Last March the head of the kremlin announced an agreement with his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenkofor the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in the neighboring country, with which it has accelerated the integration of defense policy in the last two years.

Belarusian soldiers received training in April in Russia on the use of special tactical ammunition for missiles Iskander-Mcapable of using not only conventional, but also nuclear weapons.

That same month, the training of Belarusian forces to operate Su-25 attack aircraft, which were equipped to carry tactical nukes.

The Russian Defense Minister has made it clear that Moscow will retain control over the warheads and the decision on their eventual use.

“Russia does not transfer nuclear weapons to the Republic of Belarus: control over them and the decision to use them remains with the Russian side”emphasized in May in minsk.

The boss of the kremlin reiterated this Friday that he has already said on numerous occasions that nuclear weapons can only be used by Russia if there is a threat to the territorial integrity, independence, sovereignty and existence of the Russian state.

“The nuclear weapons have been created to guarantee the safety and existence of the russian state. But there is no need” to resort to them, he stressed.

He considered that all the debates that exist around this possibility “They lower the threshold for the use of these weapons.”

He did make it clear that Russia has “more of these weapons than western countries” and it is for what they want “push us to start arguing” its eventual use.

“No way”he emphasized, while stressing that for Russia to have superiority in nuclear weapons “it is a competitive advantage” for the country.

Source: Elcomercio

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