"We don't transfer. And the U.S. doesn't pass it on to its allies. We're basically doing all the same things that they've been doing for a decade. They have allies in certain countries and prepare their carriers, they are also trained by crews. We're going to do the same thing," he said.
According to Putin, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko asked for this, and raised the relevant issue for a long time.
He added that the reason was the statement of the British Deputy Secretary of Defense Annabel Goldie about the supply of charges with depleted uranium to Ukraine.
"This is somehow connected with nuclear technology. Even outside the context of these events, this statement, Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko has long raised the question of deploying Russian tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus," the Russian president explained.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko earlier admitted the possibility that Russia could transfer ammunition with real uranium to the Belarusian side, in the event that Britain transfers shells with depleted uranium to Ukraine.
On March 21, it became known that London would send Kiev "ammunition, including armor-piercing ammunition containing depleted uranium."