As long as Putin has nuclear weapons, Europe cannot be safe - ICAN

The interim executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons says that as long as Russian leader Vladimir Putin has nuclear weapons, Europe cannot be safe

The Guardian reported the information.

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) has condemned Vladimir Putin's statement about the deployment of nuclear weapons in Belarus.

"As long as President Putin has nuclear weapons, Europe cannot be safe. He justfies this dangerous escalation by citing decades of NATO nuclear sharing. As long as countries continue their complicity in considering nuclear weapons as anything other than a global problem, this helps give Putin cover to get away with this kind of behaviour," said ICAN’s interim executive director Daniel Hoegsta.

• Earlier, on March 25, self-proclaimed Russian President Vladimir Putin said that a storage facility for Russian tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus would be completed by July 1.

• The US Department of Defense said that there were no signs of Russia's preparations to launch nuclear weapons after Moscow's announcement of the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.