that in recent months we have found ourselves in a different world, that it is not russia that has made this kind of decision every time i hear a statement that we are dealing with uh, unprovoked russian aggression. uh, against ukraine, i immediately want to say how and how many warned you. how many times they asked you how many times they explained to you, that this can no longer continue, and that's it. this was ignored up to the last moment. and we found ourselves here from the situation in which we found ourselves, and finding ourselves in that situation, in which we found ourselves, i think not only it's about another tone, a tv presenter, but it's about the fact that the country's leadership, but forced to make decisions that i previously thought it would take. i didn’t want to, but

which turned out to be really necessary today. and let's listen to what president vladimir putin said about the need to deploy tactical nuclear weapons alexander grigoryevich lukashenko has long raised the question of deploying russian tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of belarus, but there is nothing here either, nothing unusual. uh, first of all, the united states has been doing this for a decade. they have long placed their tactical nuclear weapons in six states on the territory of their e countries, allies of nato countries in europe, in this sense, alexander is right. he says, well, listen. we are your closest allies. why do the americans make their allies there on their territory, they teach, by the way, saying their crews of their pilots.

uh, use this weapon if necessary. we agreed that we would do the same without violating our obligations. i want to emphasize this without violating my international obligations not to proliferation. e nuclear weapons. we have already helped our belarusian colleagues to re-equip their planes belarusian air force planes 10 planes are ready for the use of this type of weapon. first, we have already transferred in belarus our well-known very effective complex from kontr and it can also be the carrier of april s3, we are transgressing to crew training. and on july 1, we complete the construction of a special storage facility for tactical nuclear weapons on the territory

belarus so everything that the president of belarus asked for all the questions that they raised in this regard. all our agreements are being implemented and will take place in the very near future. well, it seems to me that, in general, it is difficult to say more clearly, but nevertheless, washington, e, apparently, did not see the clarity of the decision of the president on the one hand. putin caused predictable indignation and strong negative emotions. but it was easy to predict, but on the other hand. and this, too, was probably easy to predict was stated, including representatives of the national security council admirals, what they say? there is nothing to worry about, because so far the pentagon is an american intelligence

agency. haven't seen hmm any movement of russian tactical nuclear forces that would show that putin really meant what he announced, what do you think about this general you know, but, firstly, they may not see . because the movement of ammunition is also the movement of some kind, you know, even heavy equipment. and so they may not see on the other side. i must say that now we are being reproached. e that we violate the regimes they spread, undermine the treaty on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, this is not so, why not? because yes, russia's position is after the president's statement. it would have changed, because even in the final communiqué after the meeting between the president

of russia and the president of the people 's republic of china on march 21, it is said that the parties are in favor of the presence of nuclei of tactical nuclear weapons on their national territory. well, there are many arguments. i will cite only there such the most obvious, firstly, e russia e. well, first of all, uh, not distribution. this is the transfer of nuclear weapons to someone, the other side. technology, or uh, weapons-grade weapons-grade uranium, weapons-grade plutonium. nothing happens here, everything is under control. e of the russian federation e, the second e of the russian federation has been applying for, well, a decade, but starting, probably somewhere in the early 2000s. this topic has come up literally at every conference. during bilateral meetings when we

spoke to the americans. we are ready they are very concerned about the number of nuclear weapons , tactical or non-strategic, what is the american term? ah, but did we speak well to them? we are ready to give in to dialogue with you if you move from tactical nuclear weapons from europe to the continental part and at one time. they were this when they started deploying the missile defense system, because before that they said that these tactical nuclear weapons are american serve to cement the so-called e -euro-atlantic ligament and filling the nuclear potential of nato began to deploy the pro system and some american officials. the old man says, well, in principle, we can deduce, because pro can play the role of tactical nuclear weapons, moreover, within the framework of the last proposal that the russian federation made is to make a statement within the framework of the five on the inadmissibility of the presence

of tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of third countries, but also, accordingly, to the americans gradually withdrew the americans. well, not only they, the british, the french categorically refused this, so what the president accepted. eh, such a decision is fair, moreover, we have a single union state, therefore, if some lawyers say that, in principle, this is no longer the territory of a third party. and this is the territory of the union state. therefore, there is no threat , moreover, i will tell you such a thing that russia, unlike the americans, who have six bases in six countries. actually keeps it open. uh, deployed tactical nuclear weapons, these w61 bombs of various modifications, because they have been stored in hangars practically under aircraft near the russian federation since the nineties. all tactical nuclear weapons of the ussr

are concentrated in the centralized warehouses of the twelfth main directorate of the ministry of defense. and even here, uh, the president emphasizes that the construction of a special storage facility will be completed. that is, again, it will be focused because. it hasn't been completed yet. you do not was supposed to. naturally, they did not see what no one planned to do, of course, a nut. so, when the first of july is, uh, the construction of this storage is completed , some kind of nomenclature, uh, nuclear weapons will be moved there. i don't know mole missiles there. maybe there's an air bump there might be artillery shells, but in any case , they will be. not deployed, that is, they will not be in combat units at air bases. uh in artillery units, or uh in some other units know i'm very happy. uh this statement by president putin uh, you may

remember i said several times on our program that i believe that uh is a tactical nuclear weapon. yes , it must be taken into account as an integral part of the russian military arsenal in any talk about what might happen if the collective west were to allow ukraine to take some extremist irresponsible actions. and i uh said this, in part, because i know a little about tactical weapons. clear as you know worked with james shlyazir, the former minister of defense, who developed precisely this theory. i didn’t work with him not in the pentagon, but his later years, but most importantly, i know america a little. i think that russia has a lot of problems with the united states. yes, one very serious problem is that, uh, america is extremely reluctant

to turn on the russian nuclear arsenal. if you want to understand.