German Foreign Ministry sees Russia deploying nuclear weapons in Belarus as intimidation attempt 

The German Foreign Ministry has criticized Russia deploying nuclear weapons in Belarus and called it an "intimidation attempt"

This was reported by Welt.

"President Putin's comparison with NATO's nuclear distribution of forces is misleading and cannot serve as a justification for the step announced by Russia," the report said.

It is also noted that Belarus has previously made several international statements that the state is renouncing nuclear weapons.

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) notes that distributing  Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus could lead to disaster.

• Vladimir Putin said that a storage facility for Russian tactical nuclear weapons will be completed in Belarus by July 1.

• The Institute for the Study of War reported that Putin announced the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus in order to intimidate the West and reduce the effectiveness of Ukraine's counteroffensive.

• NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov said that the placement of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus will make Putin more unpopular in Belarus. Mykhailo Podolyak noted that this step proves that Putin is afraid of losing the war.