Russian tactical nuclear weapons, which have already been announced to be deployed in Belarus, will be deployed on the border with Poland, DPA reported, citing Russia’s ambassador to Minsk, Boris Gryzlov.
The bunkers needed to store the weapons should be ready by July 1.
“This will be done despite the uproar in Europe and the US,” said Ambassador Gryzlov, who is a former Russian interior minister and speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament.
“Finally, people are starting to pay attention to the fact that there needs to be some parity. If we are talking about the deployment of American nuclear weapons in Europe, then we need to take measures that will strengthen the security of our union state [Беларус и Русия]”, said Gryzlov.
According to the ambassador, Russia and Belarus are part of the territory of the “union state”, which is a legally defined territory, unlike the territories of the countries where the US has its nuclear weapons. “For them, these countries are just puppets, but we have a common space,” Gryzlov said.
Amid heightened tensions between Russia and the West over the war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin recently announced that tactical nuclear weapons would be deployed in the neighboring former Soviet republic of Belarus. He justified the deployment of the weapons by saying that the US has been doing something similar in Europe for years, DPA and BTA noted.
