President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that Russia would station tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus. He marked the first time since the mid-1990s that Moscow would have based such arms outside the country. Such a move would not violate nuclear non-proliferation agreements, Mr. Putin said, as the US had stationed nuclear weapons on the territory of European allies.
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