Andrzej Duda says Russia’s moving tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda confirmed that Russia has indeed begun shifting short-range nuclear weapons to neighbouring Belarus.

Duda made the statement at a joint press conference with Portuguese President Marcelo de Sousa, the Associated Press reports.

"Indeed, this process is taking place, we are seeing that," Duda said.

He added that in an “obvious way it is changing the architecture of security in our part of Europe".

Earlier, Putin and the self-proclaimed President of Belarus, Lukashenka, claimed that they had already shipped some of its tactical nuclear weapons from Russia to Belarus.

The transferred weapons allegedly included missiles for the Iskander operational and tactical complex with a nuclear warhead. The range of the complex theoretically allows it to reach Kyiv, Warsaw, Vilnius and Riga.

As a reminder, in May 2023, Russia and Belarus signed a document on the deployment of nuclear weapons in Belarus.