Putin’s New Challenge: Tactical Nuclear Weapons Deployed in Belarus

ROMA – For the first time since the mid-1990s, the Kremlin will take its atomic arsenal outside the territory of the Federation. “On July 1, the construction of a depot for tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus will be completed,” announced the president Vladimir Putinat the end of a tense week, especially after Great Britain announced the shipment to Kiev of depleted uranium munitions, considered by Moscow “a threat to Russia”.