The European Union is ready to respond with new sanctions to Russia's intentions to deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus.

This was announced by the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell.

"Placing Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus would mean an irresponsible escalation and a threat to European security. Belarus can still stop it, it's their choice. The EU is ready to respond with further sanctions," Borrell wrote on Twitter.

It will be recalled that 

 According to Putin, Russia helped the Belarusians to convert their planes and gave them Iskander missiles.

In particular, ten types of aircraft are ready for the use of tactical weapons.

"From April 3, we will start training crews, start building a storage facility for nuclear weapons. We will not hand over our tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, but we will deploy them and train the military, like the USA in Europe," the dictator said.

Putin admitted that the self-proclaimed president of the Republic of Belarus, Oleksandr Lukashenko, has long raised questions about the placement of Russian tactical nuclear weapons on the country's territory.

One of the arguments for this is that "the USA has long placed it in a number of countries."

The last nuclear weapons deployed during the Soviet Union were exported from Belarus to Russia in 1996. 

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