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Ukraine Urges UN Meeting on Putin’s Atomic Weapons Plan

  • Putin said tactical nuclear arms would be stationed in Belarus
  • Kyiv calls on G-7 nations, EU to warn Belarus of consequences
Vladimir Putin, right, speaks with Alexander Lukashenko at the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg in December 2022.

Vladimir Putin, right, speaks with Alexander Lukashenko at the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg in December 2022.

Source: AFP
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Kyiv demanded an extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council in its first official response to Vladimir Putin’s announcement that Russia will station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.

“It is another provocative step, which undermines the principles of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the architecture of nuclear disarmament and the international security system,” the Ukrainian foreign ministry said Sunday in a lengthy response to the plan announced by Russia’s president.