Russian President Vladimir Putin recently announced the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in the neighbouring former Soviet Republic of Belarus, against the backdrop of strong tensions with the West as a result of the Ukraine war. Moscow’s ambassador in Minsk, Boris Gryzlov, said Russian tactical nuclear weapons, previously announced for deployment in Belarus, will be placed on the border with Poland. Gryzlov said Russia and Belarus are the territory of the Union State, a legalised territory, unlike the territories of countries where the United States stations its nuclear weapons. Are we close to world war III?
