 Russia takes control of the Belarusian army. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said that Russian nuclear weapons have already begun moving to Belarus under bilateral agreements. He commented on the agreement signed by the Defence Ministers of Belarus and Russia on the deployment of Russian nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory. A decision has been made to develop what had been said verbally. We had to prepare sites, storage and so on. We have done all that, so the supply of nuclear ammunition has begun. He added, On May 25th, the Defence Ministers of Russia and Belarus signed documents on the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory. At the end of March this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced an agreement with Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus, to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in the Republic. The Institute for the Study of War, ISW, is convinced that the agreement on the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus is aimed at consolidating the actual Russian military control over Belarus, and the probable deployment of nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory is unlikely to mean any escalation from the Russian side. The deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus requires both significant military infrastructure and Russian command and control over elements of the Belarusian armed forces. The Kremlin likely intends to use these requirements to further subordinate the Belarusian security sphere under Russia. The ISW noted.