There is no time limit for the deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus, said Alexei Polishchuk, head of Russia's Department for the Former Soviet Union.
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| Russia's statement on the issue of deploying nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus is attracting international attention. (Source: Russian Ministry of Defense) |
On June 19, in an interview with TASS (Russia), Mr. Alexei Polishchuk said that the Russia-Belarus agreements do not contain any time restrictions allowing the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory.
He mentioned the possibility that the above type of weapons could be withdrawn from Belarus if the US and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) refrain from harming the security and sovereignty of Russia and Belarus.
In March, Russia announced that it was deploying tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, a country in the Union State with Russia. President Alexander Lukashenko announced that the weapons had begun arriving last month, the first time Moscow has done so since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
On the same day, the Russian Defense Ministry said Moscow's forces had successfully held back the Ukrainian advance to retake the village of Novodonetske in the eastern Donetsk region, where Kiev was focusing its counterattack.
The British Ministry of Defense confirmed that over the past 10 days, Russia has shown signs of mobilizing units of the Dnipro Group of Forces (DGF) from the eastern bank of the Dnipro River to reinforce the defense line in Zaporizhzhia and Bakhmut.
The redeployment of the DGF suggests that Russia implicitly anticipates that Ukraine is not inclined to attack across the Dnipro River, due to the flooding there caused by the Kakhovka Dam collapse.
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