"There is nothing unusual here either: firstly, the United States has been doing this for decades. They have long deployed their tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of their allied countries," Putin told state television. The Kremlin's plan was ...

Belarus has stated that by agreeing to deploy Russian tactical nuclear weapons on its territory, it allegedly took "forced retaliatory actions" to strengthen its security and defence capabilities and was not violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Moscow did not say where it had intercepted the Ground-launched Small Diameter Bomb, which are fired on rockets guided by GPS satellite, with a 150 km range – roughly double that of the US-supplied HIMARS weapons that Kyiv deployed last year. It came as ...

US President Joe Biden on Tuesday blasted Russian ... The Kremlin leader announced on Saturday that he was ordering the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, run by fellow authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko as one of Russia's ...

Putin made the announcement at a time of growing tensions with the West over the Ukraine war and as some Russian commentators speculate about possible nuclear strikes. It is the first time in decades that Moscow is basing such arms outside the country.

Background: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on 27 March that Belarus would deploy tactical nuclear weapons by July, and compared his nuclear plans to the US deployment of its weapons in Europe. He insisted that Russia would not break its nuclear non ...