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Russia will bring tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus. Moscow will have control over any decisions on their use

It's official! Russia will bring tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus. Moscow and Minsk Defence Ministers Sergei Shoigu and Viktor Hrenin today signed a document to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of the Republic of Belarus.

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According to the press, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said the West was waging an "undeclared war" against the two countries.

The decision to move Russian nuclear weapons to Belarus was taken earlier this year amid Moscow's war against Ukraine.

In April, Aleksandr Lukashenko announced that Belarusian soldiers would be sent to the Russian Federation to be trained in the maintenance and use of Iskander-M tactical nuclear weapons.

Minister Shoigu said that both the monitoring and the decision to use these weapons would remain in Russia's hands. The storage facility for tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus was to be built by 1 July this year.

Moscow will have control over these weapons and any decisions on their use, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said, Reuters and TASS report, quoted by Agerpres.

The Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, which are close allies in the Ukraine conflict, agreed earlier this year to deploy part of Moscow's tactical nuclear arsenal on Belarusian territory.

In March, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced an agreement with his Belarusian counterpart Aleksandr Lukashenko to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, a move that has been widely criticised in the West.

Putin said at the time that there was nothing extraordinary in this, as the US had been doing similar things in NATO countries for decades.

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