ukrainian security officials have accused russia of depriving belarus of its sovereignty, after president putin annouced that he would station nuclear weapons in the country. the secretary of the national defence council, oleksiy danilov, said on twitter that the move is a step towards internal destabilisation. adding in a stark warning that the kremlin took belarus as a nuclear hostage. ukraine says the deployment violates nonproliferation commitments, which mr putin denies. we have already transferred to belarus our well known, very effective complex iskander. it can be a delivery vehicle as well. on april 3rd, we will start training the crews. onjuly 1st, we will finish the construction of the special repository to store the tactical nuclear weapon in belarus. i m joined from kyiv by our correspondent, hugo bachega. what exactly is president putin planning to do? he what exactly is president putin planning to do? planning to do? he announced yesterday planning to do? he
ukrainian security officials have accused russia of depriving belarus of its sovereignty, after president putin said he would station nuclear weapons there. the secretary of the national defence council, oleksiy danilov, said on twitter that the move was a step towards the internal destabilisation of belarus. and he said the kremlin had taken the country as a nuclear hostage. ukraine says the deployment violates nonproliferation commitments, something mr putin has denied. translation: we have already transferred - to belarus our well known, very effective complex iskander. it can be a delivery vehicle as well. on april 3rd, we will start training the crews. onjuly 1st, we will finish the construction of the special repository to store the tactical nuclear weapon in belarus. i m joined from kyiv by our correspondent, hugo bachega. how is this affecting already extremely high tensions in the area? i don t think there was any surprise here in ukraine. russia and belarus have b
when clocks should go forward. ukrainian security officials have accused russia of depriving belarus of its sovereignty, after president putin said he would station nuclear weapons there. the secretary of the national defence council said on twitter that the move was a step towards the internal destabilisation of belarus. and he said the kremlin had taken the country as a nuclear hostage. ukraine says the deployment violates nonproliferation commitments, something mr putin has denied. translation: we have already transferred - to belarus our well known, very effective complex iskander. it can be a delivery vehicle as well. on april 3rd, we will start training the crews. onjuly 1st, we will finish the construction of the special repository to store the tactical nuclear weapon in belarus. our correspondent in kyiv, hugo bachega, elaborates on the reaction that s come from this move. i don t think there was any surprise here in ukraine. russia and belarus have been talking abo
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