Poland to seek NATO nuclear sharing amid Belarus threat

June 30, BPN. Poland wants to join NATO’s nuclear sharing program to counter Russia’s plan to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said.

Morawiecki said after an EU summit in Brussels that Poland was ready to act quickly and that the final decision would depend on the US partners in NATO.

“We don’t want to sit idly by while Putin piles up threats of all kinds,” he said, as quoted by polsatnews.pl.

NATO’s nuclear sharing program allows the United States to deploy nuclear weapons in some of its allies that do not have their own. Currently, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey host US nuclear weapons.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier this month that Russia had delivered the first nuclear warheads to Belarus, a move that alarmed Belarusian neighbors.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said there was no need to change the bloc’s nuclear posture at the moment.