Troops conducted offensive operations "at the Melitopol, Berdiansk and Bakhmut directions,” according to the Ukraine Defense Force in a Telegram statement.
The Ukrainian military said Tuesday its forces had launched an offensive in Bakhmut, and were "entrenching themselves" and "inflicting artillery fire on the identified enemy targets." Ukrainian soldiers prepare a Croatian RAK-SA-12 128mm multiple rocket launcher on the frontline near Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on July 10. Available satellite imagery has also not shown any signs of the kind of preparations and security that would be standard at a Russian nuclear facility. While Russian President Vladimir Putin said last month that the facilities in Belarus necessary to store tactical nuclear weapons would be ready by July 7, Western officials have seen no signs of that.īelarus still does not appear to have the proper infrastructure in place to house the weapons, officials said, and it will likely be months, if not longer, before doing so is even feasibly possible. However, there are doubts over whether the transfer of weapons has really begun. "There will be nuclear weapons for everyone," Lukashenko said. Some background: Russia announced plans in March to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, in a sign of a growing military alliance between the neighbouring countries.īelarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said in May that Russia had begun to transfer the weapons to its territory - and even offered to provide nuclear weapons to other countries willing "to join the Union State of Russia and Belarus." “But we remain vigilant, and we will ensure that we of course already to protect and defend every NATO allies against any potential threat.” “So far we haven't seen any changes in the Russian nuclear deployments posture that requires any changes from our side," he continued. “We are monitoring closely what they are doing,” Stoltenberg said in a doorstep interview ahead of the NATO summit taking place in Vilnius, Lithuania.
NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said that the alliance condemns the announcement that Russia will deploy tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gives an interview prior to the official opening of the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 11.
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