Russia Makes Major Nuclear Weapons Move For First Time In More Than 30 Years

by: Dylan Housman
2023-05-26
Source: Daily Caller
05/26/2023

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Russia moved forward with a plan Thursday to station nuclear weapons in Belarus, right on the border with Ukraine, marking the first time the Kremlin has moved nuclear weapons outside Russian territory since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, an authoritarian ruler closely allied with Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Thursday that the weapons were already in transit. No Russian nuclear weapons have been outside the country since 1991, when they were taken out of former Soviet republics that became independent during the collapse of the USSR, according to Reuters.

Lukashenko told reporters in Moscow he wasn’t sure if the weapons were already in Belarus or not, but he’d check when he gets back. He was visiting the Russian capital to attend meetings with leaders of other ex-Soviet countries.

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