Russia will move tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, bordering Ukraine. The announcement from Russian President Vladimir Putin signals his growing threat on the possible use of nuclear weapons, and a tool the country is using to threaten the United States and its NATO allies. Meanwhile, the “Pax Americana” or “peace under America” may be coming…

Russia will move tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, bordering Ukraine. The announcement from Russian President Vladimir Putin signals his growing threat on the possible use of nuclear weapons, and a tool the country is using to threaten the United States and its NATO allies. Meanwhile, the “Pax Americana” or “peace under America” may be coming…

The United States will not adjust its nuclear posture following an announcement by Russia that it will place tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus. Russian President Vladimir Putin said over the weekend that Belarus could house Russian tactical nuclear weapons by the beginning of summer. The Biden administration says that Russia is not seriously considering…

The European Union is threatening more sanctions on Russia if it stations tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. It comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on March 25 that his government would move tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, in a clear warning to Ukraine and allied Western nations as they continue to provide military and…

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans on Saturday to station tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus. Putin said the move was triggered by Britain’s decision this past week to provide Ukraine with armor-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium. Tactical nuclear weapons are intended for use on the battlefield and have a short range and a low…

National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby brushed off a question on March 2 whether China may channel weapons to Russia through Kremlin-aligned Belarus in support of Moscow’s war in Ukraine. Belarus and China expanded their defense partnership during Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s audience with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Beijing on March 1. In response…

WASHINGTON—The United States imposed visa restrictions Tuesday on 25 people including lawmakers for undermining democracy in Belarus with politically motivated trials such as that of exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. Belarus put Tsikhanouskaya on trial in absentia on treason charges on Tuesday, in what the outspoken critic of veteran…

Strategic allies Russia and Belarus began holding wide-ranging joint military drills on Jan. 16, according to official statements from both countries. The exercises, which are set to continue until Feb. 1, will likely fuel fears of a possible Russian advance on Kyiv, which sits only 95 miles south of the Belarusian border. According to the…

Russian forces are reportedly advancing on the flashpoint town of Bakhmut having claimed victory in the nearby town of Soledar—assertions denied by officials in Kyiv. “We have made clear progress,” Igor Kimakovsky, a spokesman for the Moscow-backed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), claimed on Jan. 12. “Soledar is practically ours,” Kimakovsky was quoted as saying by…

Russian officials have soundly rejected a proposal by Ukraine’s foreign minister to convene a peace summit between the two warring parties sometime in February. Leonid Slutsky, head of the Russian State Duma’s international affairs committee, described the proposal—under which Russia would have to submit to a “war-crimes tribunal”—as “a smokescreen.” “Ukraine still isn’t ready to…