Belarus to receive Russian tactical nuclear weapons imminently, says leader Lukashenko.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko announced that Russian tactical nuclear weapons will be physically deployed on Belarusian territory "in several days" and that he has the facilities to host longer-range missiles too if ever needed. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia, which will retain control of the tactical nuclear weapons, would start deploying them in close ally Belarus after special storage facilities to house them were made ready on July 7-8. The deployment will be Moscow's first move of such warheads outside Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union.