President Putin announced Saturday that he had reached an agreement with Belarussian dictator Alexandr Lukashenko to place tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, which shares a border with NATO member Poland and has already been used as a staging ground for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Putin claimed that this move would not violate nuclear non-proliferation agreements, asserting that the U.S. has taken similar actions to place nuclear weapons within the borders of its European allies. Putin says he will have a storage facility ready for the nukes by July 1st, and that he has already stationed 10 planes capable of carrying them within Belarus.
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