Everything is going according to plan,” the Russian leader told Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko when discussing the planned nuclear deployment on Friday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday (9 June) announced that Moscow will deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus once special storage facilities are ready on 7-8 July, marking the country's first deployment of such weapons outside of Russia since the Soviet Union's collapse.

MOSCOW, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his intention on Friday to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus from early July. Putin said preparations at the relevant facilities would be completed on July 7 and 8.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) posted a one-and-a-half minute audio clip on its Telegram channel of the alleged conversation, which featured two men who appeared to be discussing the fallout from the disaster in Russian.

Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday confirmed that nuclear weapons would be deployed in Belarus after facilities to house them are finished in early July. It's the first nukes deployment outside Russia since 1991.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Moscow will deploy some of its tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus next month, a move that the Belarusian opposition described as an