The heads of Belarusian and Russian defense ministries, Viktor Khrenin and Sergei Shoigu, signed in Minsk documents defining the procedure for the storage of Russia’s non-strategic nuclear weapons at a special storage facility on Belarusian territory. It has been reported telegraph channel Ministry of Defense of Belarus.
According to the Belarusian department, during the meeting of the defense ministers of the two countries, documents were signed defining the procedure for the storage of non-strategic nuclear weapons of the Russian Federation in a special storage facility on the territory of Belarus.
It was stated that Khrenin and Shoigu also discussed the military-political situation and military-technical cooperation between departments.
The head of the Russian Defense Ministry, Shoigu, said that the control of the nuclear weapons deployed in Belarus and the decision to use them remain with Russia.
How stressed The head of the Ministry of Defense of Belarus, the deployment of nuclear weapons in the republic is an effective response to the aggressive policy of hostile countries.
It was previously reported that Sergei Shoigu. reached He went to Minsk to attend the meeting of the Council of Ministers of Defense of the countries participating in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).