The Hill columnist: Putin's words about the transfer of Iskander-M to Minsk alerted the Pentagon

Ellen Mitchell, columnist for The Hill, writes about this.

"Putin's statement was: 'Hey, we'll give them Iskanders' (and by the way, they can carry nuclear weapons)."

And everyone is taking it very seriously,” said a spokesman for the US Department of Defense.

Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian leader, Dmitry Peskov, said that Putin, during a meeting with Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, did not talk about the transfer of missiles with nuclear weapons to Minsk: the conversation was about complexes technically capable of carrying various types of weapons.

National Security Adviser to the President of the United States Jake Sullivan commented on the possibility of Russia deploying nuclear weapons in Belarus.

According to him, this step will be a matter of concern for the United States and the entire NATO.