Ukraine demands UN Security Council to discuss nuclear weapons placement in belarus

russia's intentions to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in belarus concern Ukraine, so the state demands the convening of the UN Security Council.

It is a response to russia's intention to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in belarus, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry says.

Ukraine expects sharp actions to counter the nuclear blackmail of the kremlin by Great Britain, China, the USA and France, in particular, as permanent members of the UN Security Council, who bear a special responsibility for preventing threats of aggression with the use of nuclear weapons.

We demand that an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council be convened immediately for this purpose, the statement says.

Ukraine's FM noted that Russia's intention to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus is another provocative step by the Putin's criminal regime, which undermines the principles of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the nuclear disarmament architecture and the international security system as a whole.

Ukraine calls on all members of the international community to convey the categorical unacceptability of its latest nuclear provocations to putin's criminal regime and to take decisive measures to prevent any possibility of the aggressor state using nuclear weapons.

The US Department of Defense said on Saturday that there were no indications that russia was preparing to use nuclear weapons after putin's announcement to station tactical nuclear weapons in belarus.