Ukraine has asked the UN Security Council for an emergency meeting following Putin’s announcement to station warplanes, which can be armed with nuclear weapons, in Belarus. A message that causes concern among Ukrainians. – Of course we are afraid, says Roman Yashyn. On Saturday, the state-run Russian news agency Tass announced that Russia has deployed ten fighter jets, which can be armed with nuclear weapons. – Of course we are afraid. We need to understand the scale of such a potential disaster. It would mean a tragedy for large parts of Europe, says the Ukrainian Roman Yashyn. Ukraine is now warning that the statement could lead to further destabilization of the situation. – Ukraine expects swift action from Great Britain, China, the United States and France to counter the Kremlin’s nuclear blackmail. We demand that an emergency meeting be called immediately,” writes Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry in a statement. “It is not possible to scare us into panic” According to Putin, the construction of the storage facility for the nuclear weapons will be ready by July 1. to be transferred to Minsk, he adds, adding that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has agreed to the plans. Olena Liebiedieva, who lives and works in the war-torn port city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine, says Putin’s repeated threats to use nuclear weapons are signs of weakness . She does not allow herself to be intimidated by Putin. – We cannot be intimidated into panic. We have lived in peace and peace will return, she says. Oleksiy Danilov, leader of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, writes at the same time on Twitter that Russia holding Belarus “nuclear hostage”.
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Dismisses Putin: “Can’t scare us into panic”
