Against Putin’s statements about nuclear weapons – Ukraine demands an urgent meeting at the UN

Russia wants to deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus. This prompts Ukraine to respond, and requires an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council.

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It is the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs that calls on the UN Security Council to convene an extraordinary meeting.

On Saturday it became known that Russian President Vladimir Putin is going to place nuclear weapons in Belarus.

Russia is said to have already transferred 10 aircraft to Belarus that are capable of carrying tactical nuclear weapons.

“Once again, Russia shows that it is unable to be part of a responsible arrangement on nuclear weapons as a means of deterrence and war prevention, and not as an instrument of threat and intimidation,” Ukraine’s foreign ministry said in a statement. Sunday.

NATO: – Alert

NATO on Sunday criticized Russia’s nuclear weapons statements as “dangerous and irresponsible,” according to Reuters.

NATO is on alert and we are following the situation closely. We have not seen any changes in Russia’s position on the use of nuclear weapons that would cause us to modify our position.

This is what a NATO security adviser, who did not give his name, told Reuters.

NATO Allies act fully in line with international obligations. Russia has consistently reneged on its arms control commitments, most recently when it withdrew START agreementSTART agreementSTART is an acronym for Strategic Arms Reduction Talks, and includes reductions and restrictions on countries’ strategic nuclear weapons. Negotiations for the START treaty began in 1982 and the agreement was signed in 1991 by Presidents George HW Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev. Source: The Great Norwegian Dictionary.says the NATO advisor.

Putin claims to imitate Western countries

It was in an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin on a TV channel Rossya 24 on Saturday That Putin has made statements that tactical nuclear weapons are now on their way to Belarus.

According to Putin, Russia can deploy weapons without breaching the obligations in the START agreement.

He believes that Russia placing nuclear weapons in Belarus is the same as what the United States is already doing in Europe.

– We are doing the same thing as the United States has been doing in Europe for several decades, Putin claims.

The Russian president stated that the tactical nuclear weapons storage facility in Belarus should be completed by July 1 this year.

– Minsk has long requested the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, Putin says in the interview.

Brainstorm Nuclear Escalation: – Very low

The American Research Institute for the Study of War wrote in an analysis late Saturday that Putin’s announcement of a nuclear weapons transfer to Belarus had nothing to do with the escalation of nuclear war — which remains very low, the institute wrote.

Putin is trying to exploit Western concerns about nuclear escalation by deploying nuclear weapons in Belarus. ISW writes that Russia has long possessed nuclear weapons that can hit all targets that a nuclear weapon stationed in Belarus could.