U.S. and NATO officials said there was no indication Russia changed its nuclear posture after President Vladimir Putin said he planned to store tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.
The United States and its European allies warned Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday against what they said was “dangerous” nuclear rhetoric after he announced plans to store tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus, a close ally of Moscow that shares a border with northern Ukraine.At the same time, Western powers said they saw no immediate danger or reasons to change their own strategic nuclear positions in the wake of his remarks.
Russia, he said, would help Minsk refurbish aircraft to carry the weapons and had already transferred several Iskander missile systems to Belarus.Ukraine on Sunday accused Russia of taking Belarus “as a nuclear hostage.” Moscow is seeking to destabilize the country, Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s national security and defense council, said on Twitter.
The statement even prompted Josep Borrell, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, to say that he believed the world was safer as a result.But on Sunday, Borrell slammed Putin’s plans to move nuclear weapons to Belarus, calling it “an irresponsible escalation & threat to European security.
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