Ukraine is calling on the United Nations to hold an emergency session following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threat to place nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus.
Putin announced the move on Sunday, framing it as a warning to Western countries. Ukraine’s government called on the U.N. to counter Russia’s “nuclear blackmail,” arguing Putin had made Belarus its “nuclear hostage.”
Putin said the construction of the storage facilities for the weapons in the Russian-allied country, which borders Ukraine and three NATO countries – Latvia, Lithuania and Poland – would be completed by the beginning of July.
Putin argued that Russia was only adopting the policies of the U.S. and other Western countries with the deployment.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus. (Sputnik/Mikhail Metzel/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS – THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A…
