Since the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has never ceased to brandish the nuclear threat. Russia will install nuclear weapons in Crimea and Belarus.
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FShould we worry about a move of nuclear weapons from Russia to Crimea and Belarus? For Luc De Vos, professor of military sciences at the Royal Military School, interviewed by
Het Laatste Nieuws
Vladimir Putin acts in this way to show that Crimea and Belarus belong to Russia and are Russian territories.
For the expert, there is a big gap between deploying and using nuclear weapons. Launching a nuclear attack in the Donbass, for example, would amount to contaminating the entire region and a piece of Russia. Even if they decide to target western Ukraine, they would affect a larger region, including part of the NATO countries, which would have direct war consequences.
