“Everything is going according to plan”

sitting around a round table and in front of a copious breakfast, the Russian president, Vladimir Putinand his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, discussed the details of the deployment on Friday tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus agreed a few weeks ago. They seem to have reached a consensus on the date: July 8th.

It will be then when “finish the preparation of the corresponding facilities and we will immediately begin the deployment in your territory of the corresponding weapons. So everything is going according to plan“, as Putin announced during his meeting at the summer residence in the Sochi resort (Black Sea), in statements collected by Efe.

Apparently, Putin was willing to discuss issues related to security with Lukashenko in the context of the war in Ukraine, a country that borders both countries. end of may The Belarusian president announced in Moscow the beginning of the transfer of Russian atomic weapons after revealing that Putin had already signed the corresponding summons decree.

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The defense ministers of Russia, Sergei Shoiguand from Belarus, Victor Jreninsigned the documents regulating the storage of nuclear weapons two weeks ago in Minsk “non-strategic” on the territory of the former Soviet republic.

Moscow has stressed that the tactical-operational missile system Iskander-Mcapable of using missiles not only in conventional, but also nuclear weapons, has already been delivered to Belarus, which sees it as “an effective response to the aggressive policy of hostile countries.”

“Some of the Belarusian planes have been converted for the possible use of nuclear weapons. The military have received proper training,” Shoigu said. The Russian minister stressed that while Russia deploys non-strategic nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus, Moscow will retain control over them and on the decision of its eventual use.

“Russia does not transfer nuclear weapons to the Republic of Belarus: control over them and the decision to use them remains with the Russian side,” he emphasized in statements collected by Efe.

last march the head of the Kremlin announced an agreement with his Belarusian counterpart for the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in the neighboring country, with which he has accelerated economic and political integration within the framework of the State Union in the last two years.

Belarusian servicemen received training in Russia in April on the use of special tactical ammunition for Iskander-M missiles. That same month he further announced that the training of Belarusian forces to operate Su-25 attack aircraft, which were equipped to carry tactical nuclear weapons, had been completed.