Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that in connection with the changing conditions, the concept of security of the Russian Federation and Belarus is needed. He announced this on the program. “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin”.
“The threats that were covered up before now come to the fore, all the masks have been torn, and so it is necessary to position our stance against everything that is happening,” he said.
Peskov earlier at a briefing discretion The need to update the nuclear doctrine of the Russian Federation in connection with Russia’s plans to deploy its nuclear weapons in Belarus.
According to him, there is no need to make such changes in the document.
On March 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus at the request of the Belarusian side. He noted that the US has been doing this for a long time on the territory of its allies, and that since Moscow did not hand over its nuclear weapons to Minsk, this decision “would not violate the promises of non-proliferation.”