Lukashenko offers nuclear weapons to potential Union State members.

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has offered nuclear weapons to nations willing to join the Union State of Russia and Belarus, days after confirming the transfer of some tactical nuclear weapons from Moscow to Minsk had begun. Putin has said that Russia would retain control over any tactical nuclear weapons stationed in Belarus. The move is likely to heighten concerns at a time of growing global proliferation and as Moscow threatens the world with its own atomic arsenal as its war against Ukraine falters.