Russian Protection Minister Sergei Shoigu signed an settlement Thursday along with his counterpart in neighboring Belarus, permitting for the storage of tactical nuclear weapons on the Russian ally’s territory.
The deal meets “each existent worldwide authorized obligation,” Shoigu stated, throughout a signing ceremony within the Belarusian capital, Minsk. He warned that additional steps may very well be taken to guard the international locations’ collective safety. On the similar time, he underlined that Russia “will not be giving nuclear weapons to Belarus” and that management over their use and deployment stays “within the arms” of Moscow.
