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“We will stop at nothing to protect our countries, our state and their peoples”, says Belarus’s president

President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday that Russia, which has already decided to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, could if necessary put intercontinental nuclear missiles there too.

Russian strategic nuclear weapons might be deployed to Belarus along with part of Russia's tactical nuclear arsenal, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Friday. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced last week that his country intended to deploy tactical, comparatively short-range and small-yield nuclear weapons in Belarus. The strategic nuclear weapons such…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that he intends to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus

Nato has condemned the announcement by Vladimir Putin that Russia is to station tactical nuclear weapons in neighbouring Belarus as “dangerous and irresponsible” rhetoric.

Ukraine shut the eastern town of Avdiivka to non-military personnel on Monday, describing it as a post-apocalyptic wasteland, as Kyiv tried to break the back of Russia's flagging winter offensive before a counter-assault of its own.

The US is downplaying the threat of Russian nuclear strikes after Vladimir Putin announced he will station nuclear weapons in Belarus.

Nato condemns ‘dangerous rhetoric’ over atomic missiles near Ukraine