Webdesk: On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed that he sent tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus. It is to show the West that it could not destroy Russia strategically.
Putin added that Russian tactical nuclear warheads handed to close partner Belarus. He emphasised that Russia had no need to use nuclear weapons.
He addressed Russia’s top economic gathering in St. Petersburg.
He revealed that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko had negotiated the transfer of tactical nuclear weapons.
Moreover, Putin claimed Belarus received the first part of the nuclear warheads. He predicted the job would finished by summer or year’s end.
Moscow’s first deployment of tactical nuclear weapons outside Russia since the Soviet Union was to Belarus. Putin warned the West against arming and helping Ukraine.
He noted that it deterred those who wanted to defeat Russia strategically.
Belarusian President Lukashenko, a Putin friend, stated his country has begun receiving Russian tactical nuclear weapons, including some three times more powerful than the atomic bombs unleashed on Japan in 1945.
Moreover, Putin declared in March that he will deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, citing decades of US deployment in Europe.
Putin claims the West wants “Strategic Defeat”.
The US criticised Putin’s deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus but not seen any signs that Russia poised to use nuclear weapons.
Washington, its allies, and China, which has warned against using nuclear weapons in Ukraine, are watching Russia’s move.
Putin claimed that the West was trying to defeat Russia strategically in Ukraine, but Russia did not need nuclear weapons. Putin said Moscow would only use nuclear weapons if the state is threatened.
