to start his campaign to win back the us presidency in 202a. a day after putin said moscow would deploy nuclear caveis cave is also calling on the united nations for an urgent meeting of the security council. the secretary of the uk national defence council said on twitter that the move was a step towards internal destabilisation of belarus. ukraine says the deployment violates 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 3, we will start training the crews. onjuly 1, 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. we are hearing strong condemnation from nato on this latest move from president putin. just talk us through that. we president putin. just talk us through that. president putin. just talk us through that.
and the idea behind this policy, according to some of those who ve drawn it up, is a big shift from hotels to a move to what they re describing as more rudimentary accommodation in the hopes, they say, that it will act as a deterrent. the levelling up secretary michael gove has admitted the uk is poorer as a country because of the pandemic and the war in ukraine. he was responding to comments from the chairman of the office for budget responsibility that economic output is about 4 percent lower than had we remained in the european union. our business correspondent noor nanji is here. notjust not just listening to notjust listening to mr gove is comments, do you think the government accepts responsibility here? he government accepts responsibility here? , ., ., , government accepts responsibility here? ., ., ., here? he responded one can always do better but he here? he responded one can always do better but he insisted here? he responded one can always do better but he insisted the
this is part of the russian strategy. we had some reaction from washington and perhaps it was an attempt to play out concerns that russia could be preparing to use nuclear weapons here in the country. a top us official said there was no indication that russia was preparing to do so and there was no reason for the us to change its posture when it comes to nuclear weapons so apparently, it seems that there was an effort thereby rushing to play down concerns that russia could be preparing to use nuclear weapons here and some experts say that this could be an attempt by moscow to try to exploit western fears of a possible nuclear escalation here in this conflict. we possible nuclear escalation here in this conflict- this conflict. we are now hearing from ukraine this conflict. we are now hearing from ukraine calling this conflict. we are now hearing from ukraine calling on - this conflict. we are now hearing from ukraine calling on the - this conflict. we are now hearing from ukraine
and this could be part of the russian strategy here. president putin, a number of senior russian officials have frequently talked about nuclear weapons and raise the possibility of these weapons being used here in ukraine and they know that every time the nuclear issue comes up, it s likely to spark a lot of reaction, even concerned from all players involved in the conflict so this is exactly what we are seeing here today. nato reaction to the announcement, seminar reaction from washington and some reaction from kyiv. an adviser to president zelensky said putin was too predictable and that all the person can do a scare with tactics. in other words saying that there is no surprise in this announcement. russia and belarus have been talking for quite some time about the possibility of nuclear weapons being sent to belarus and suggesting that
government is using to help fund its scheme to support households energy bills. the main issues he said were those twin shocks, the pandemic followed by the bourne ukraine which push that food and energy crisis. everyone accepts that if we hadn t had the everyone accepts that if we hadn t had the war, the impact that it had on fossil had the war, the impact that it had on fossil fuel prices and other suppiies on fossil fuel prices and other supplies as well, including food. if we hadn t supplies as well, including food. if we hadn t had the covid pandemic, then we we hadn t had the covid pandemic, then we would have been in a position then we would have been in a position where it would be significantly higher. just position where it would be significantly higher. just to read throu~h significantly higher. just to read through the significantly higher. just to read through the context significantly higher. just to read through the context of - significantly higher. just to