The Department of Defense of USA has issued a statement this Saturday after ten o’clock at night in which it affirms that it does not see any indication that Vladimir Putin going to use nuclear weapons. The White House This is how he reacts to the Russian president’s announcement to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of his Belarusian ally. “We have not seen any reason to adjust our nuclear strategy or any indication that Russia is preparing to use a nuclear weapon,” Washington said in a brief statement.
This Saturday Putin has given an interview on Russian television in which he has revealed that he has ordered the installation of nuclear weapons in strategic positions in Belarus. “There is nothing unusual about this: the United States has done it for decades. They have long deployed tactical nuclear weapons on their territory. allies. We have decided to do the same,” Putin says in the interview.
And the United States has replied along the same lines of wanting to minimize the impact of the announcement. “Russia’s move could be a political signal on Belarus’s independence day,” they said from the White House.
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The European Union has interpreted Putin’s move as more dangerous, since it sees it as “another escalation of the conflict”, as stated by the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Policy, Joseph Borrell from Santo Domingo, where he participates in the Ibero-American Summit, according to the EFE agency.
“It is a very significant movement,” said the researcher at the Vienna Center for Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. Nikolay Sokol. “Russia has always been very proud of not having nuclear weapons outside its borders. Now that is changing and it represents a big change,” she added. When the USSR collapsed in 1991, its nuclear weapons were distributed among the four newly independent states of Russia, Ukraine, belarus y kazakhstan. But a year later those four states agreed to relocate all those nuclear weapons to Russia.