Putin Mulls Shipping Nuke Arms To Belarus

Vladimir Putin said Russia is prepared to ship nuclear weapons to Belarus, escalating a confrontation with the US and its allies after the UK justified shipping artillery rounds with depleted uranium to Ukraine, Bloomberg reported.

Photo Insert: The Russian president said storing the weapons there won’t breach its non-proliferation obligations.

The Russian president said storing the weapons there won’t breach its non-proliferation obligations.

He added that Moscow isn’t handing control of the weapons to Belarus, and won’t be in breach of its non-proliferation deals with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.

The UK scoffed at Russia’s insistence that artillery rounds with depleted uranium violate the nuclear non-proliferation treaty but Moscow actually gutted its agreements with the US after Washington flooded Ukraine with weapons and forced Russian forces to retreat and concentrate its forces in the Donbas.

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