NATO on Sunday criticized Russia for its 'dangerous and irresponsible' nuclear rhetoric, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia would station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.
However, this could be the first time since the mid-1990s that Russia has based such weapons outside the country. Experts told Reuters the development was significant, since Russia had until now been proud that unlike the United States, it did not deploy nuclear weapons outside its borders.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak, seen in Kyiv on Feb. 16, says Russia's president is 'afraid of losing' the war in Ukraine and therefore is using scare tactics by announcing plans to station tactical, or non-strategic, nuclear weapons in Belarus. Tactical nuclear weapons refer to those used for specific gains on a battlefield rather than those with the capacity to wipe out cities. It is unclear how many such weapons Russia has, given it is an area still shrouded in Cold War secrecy.
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