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Kyiv seeks UN Security Council meeting after Putin announces his country will station tactical nuclear arms in Belarus.

KYIV, Ukraine: Kyiv on Sunday said Russia took Minsk as a "nuclear hostage" after President Vladimir Putin announced the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, bringing the arms to a country at the gates of the European Union.

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.

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

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