Explained: Putin's Plan To Deploy Russian Nuclear Weapons In Belarus

Putin's nuclear deployment is a message to the West that he will not back down over the Ukraine war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin in March announced a plan to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, Moscow's first move of such warheads outside Russia since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union.

What is known about the deployment?

WHAT DID PUTIN SAY?

Putin's nuclear deployment is a message to the West that he will not back down over the Ukraine war.