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Since the start of his invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has repeatedly invoked the threat of nuclear weapons

to try to deter Western support for the Ukrainians.

Now the Russian leader has announced he is deploying tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.

President Putin said the Belarusian president had offered to host the nuclear weapons in the same way

that American allies do for US missiles.

Our Russia editor Steve Rosenberg sent this report from Moscow.

Vladimir Putin had indicated a few months ago that some Belarusian military planes had been re-equipped

to potentially carry nuclear missiles and that Russia was trading Belarusian crews.

Now he said that again, adding that by the 1st of July, Russia will finish construction of

a storage facility in Belarus for tactical nuclear weapons. But he gave no details of when

those weapons would be transported there. If they are, he made it clear that Moscow would not be

transferring control of such arms to Minsk. As Western nations continue to provide military

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