by Shane Trejo, Big League Politics:

On March 25, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on the Rossiya-24 news channel that Russia will deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus at its neighbor’s request. Putin made this announcement in response to the United States’ efforts to move more weapons into its NATO allies’ territories.

“Even out of the context of these events, this statement (about the possible supply of depleted uranium shells by the UK to Ukraine – TASS), Alexander Grigorievich Lukashenko has long raised the issue of deploying Russian tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus,” Putin declared.