Vladimir Putin will strategically position nuclear weapons in the country that borders Russia and Ukraine.
Despite the warnings of the International Criminal Court, Vladimir Putin continues to increase his country’s nuclear influence in the region. After agreeing a strategic partnership with China for energy supply, the Russia-Ukraine conflict takes a new tenor with the deployment of nuclear weapons in belaruswhich borders the two countries involved in the war.
“Russia already delivered to belarus the Iskander missile system, which can carry atomic weapons“, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced, quoted by the Tass agency. “We will also deploy in Belarus 10 aircraft capable of transporting tactical nuclear weapons,” added the Russian president.
Putin pointed out that the deployment of nuclear weapons has a tactical objective but also a training for the Belarusian military corps. “USA It has been distributing its tactical nuclear weapons to some countries for a long time, so Belarus’ request for this type of weapon from Russia is not unusual,” he argued.
Finally, he explained that the measure was agreed with the president Alexander Lukashenko “without violating the non-proliferation regime”, and that the construction of storage for weapons in Belarus It will be completed on July 1. That country was already an allied territory of Russia, through which Kremlin troops circulated to Ukraine. In addition, Belarus has borders with Latvia, Lithuania and Polandthree countries of the EU and of the NATO.
The conflict over depleted uranium weapons
Vladimir Putin He also referred to the announcement by the British Deputy Defense Minister, annabel goldie. The official assured that United Kingdom planned the delivery of howitzers “with depleted uranium” to Ukrainewhose main purpose is “destroy modern tanks and armored vehicles“. In this sense, the president indicated that “Russia, of course, has what to answer with. We have, without exaggeration, tens of thousands of such shells. We haven’t used them yet.”
Uranium can be used to make atomic bombs. For this, it needs to be enriched in centrifuges to levels between 60 and 90%. ANDl depleted uranium, or low enrichment, around 3 or 4%, and is the one used to feed reactors. This armament was already used in the two gulf wars of 1991 and 2003, as well as in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The Pentagon He also acknowledged that he used depleted uranium shells on two occasions in 2015 in operations in Syria.
British anti-nuclear organization Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament warned that the use of this weaponry would cause a “environmental disaster and additional toilets for those at the center of the conflict”.
Source: Ambito
