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The US is downplaying the threat of Russian nuclear strikes after Vladimir Putin announced he will station nuclear weapons in Belarus.

Two people suffered shrapnel wounds following an explosion on Sunday in the town of Kireyevsk, around 220 km (140 miles) south of Moscow, the TASS news agency cited emergency services as saying.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday he would deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighbour and ally Belarus. Ukraine on Sunday called for an emergency meeting of the United Nation's Security Council, accusing Moscow of holding Minsk as a "nuclear hostage".

Ukraine says Putin’s deal to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus destabilises neighbour

Vladimir Putin has announced plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring ally Belarus

NATO on Sunday criticised Vladimir Putin for what it called his "dangerous and irresponsible" nuclear rhetoric, a day after the Russian president said he planned to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is reverberating in a struggle for control of a monastery complex called the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra

Senior US administration official says there are no signs Moscow intends to use its nuclear weapons

WASHINGTON: The US Department of Defense said on Saturday that there are no indications that Russia is preparing to use nuclear weapons after Moscow's announcement to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday he would deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighbor and ally Belarus, bringing the arms to a country at the gates of the European Union. Putin has previously issued thinly veiled warnings that he could use nuclear weapons in Ukraine if Russia were threatened, reviving…

Move would be first time Moscow has stationed nuclear weapons outside Russia since mid-1990s