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President Putin
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Vladimir Putin.
United States, the West, and NATO
On 21 February 2023, Putin suspended Russia's participation in the New STARTnuclear arms reduction treaty with the United States. On 25 March, President Putin announced the stationing of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. Russia would maintain control of the weapons. President Putin told Russian TV: "There is nothing unusual here either. Firstly, the United States has been doing this for decades. They have long deployed their tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of their allied countries."