 Putin will not change his mind in terms of placing nuclear weapons in Belarus. Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, said that the negative reaction of the West will not affect Vladimir Putin's plan to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. Russia's plans cannot be changed by such a reaction of the West. We know the West's opposition to Russia's decision to deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus. The President explained everything in his statements, which he made in an interview. There is nothing to add to that, Peskov said. It should be noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin announced during a TV interview that Moscow and Minsk had reached an agreement on the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. After this North Atlantic alliance criticized Russia's dangerous and irresponsible nuclear rhetoric, adding that it was monitoring the situation. Also, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry called for an immediate meeting of the UN Secretary Council in the wake of Putin's comments. European Union diplomacy chief Joseph Burrell announced that the EU was ready to respond to the actions of Russia and Belarus with further sanctions. The United States has seen no evidence of Russia moving nuclear weapons to neighboring Belarus or elsewhere.