Putin: Russian nukes to be deployed to Belarus next month

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MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Moscow would deploy some of its tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus next month, a move that the Belarusian opposition described as an attempt to blackmail the West.

Putin said during a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko that work on building facilities for the weapons would be completed by July 7 and 8, and they would be moved to the territory of Russia's neighbor and ally quickly after that.Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko talk during their meeting at the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the western Russian resort city of Sochi on Friday, June 9, 2023.

The move comes as Ukraine has stepped up attacks in several sectors of the front line in what some observers see as the start of its long-expected counteroffensive.Russia used Belarus' territory to send its troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, and has kept forces and weapons on the territory of its ally.'Everything is proceeding as planned,' Putin said in televised remarks as he hosted Lukashenko at his residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.

 

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