Biden criticizes Putin for deploying nukes in Belarus: 'It's worrying'

United States President Joe Biden criticized his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday for deploying nuclear weapons in Belarus.

What happened: Biden called Putin's plan to deploy nuclear weapons in the neighboring country "dangerous" and "disturbing".

"What I told you about last year: It's a dangerous kind of speech he's using, and it's concerning," Biden said in response to a question from a reporter on Putin's plan announced on Saturday.

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The Russian leader said over the weekend that he was ordering the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus in response to the United States stationing its weapons in Europe.

"There is nothing unusual here either: First, the United States has been doing this for decades. It has a long history of deploying its tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of its countries allies," Putin said. television.

The Kremlin's plan has been denounced by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the United States, which said it saw no signs that Russia actually moved nuclear weapons.

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