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Kyiv demanded an extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council in its first official response to Vladimir Putin’s announcement that Russia will station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. “It is another provocative step, which undermines the principles of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the architecture of nuclear disarmament and the international security system,”...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a deal to deploy tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus.

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Putin said the plan was in response to Britain's decision this past week to provide Ukraine with armor-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium. (Image credit: Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

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