Putin Says Will Deploy Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Belarus

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on metals industries via videoconference in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. (AP)

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday he would deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighbor and ally Belarus, bringing the arms to a country at the gates of the European Union.

Putin has previously issued thinly veiled warnings that he could use nuclear weapons in Ukraine if Russia were threatened, reviving Cold War-era fears, AFP said.