Moscow, Minsk Kick Off Relocation of Nuclear Weapons in Belarus

Russia and Belarus have finalized the arrangements for relocating some of Russia's tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and his Belarusian counterpart, Viktor Khrenin, signed on Thursday documents that determine joint procedures regarding the relocation of weapons and organize the mechanisms of placing them under the Russian forces’ control on Belarusian territories. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed two months ago a decree to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.

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