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 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. just talk us through what happened. i think what we ve seen since the beginning of the conflict is that president putin and senior russian officials have frequently talked about nuclear weapons and even the possibility of nuclear weapons being used in this conflict and they know that every time the nuclear issue comes up, those remarks spark concerns in some countries, reactions in some nations, there is exactly what we re seeing today and perhaps this the in
used and a senior us official said there were no indications that russia could be planning to use tactical nuclear weapons here in this conflict and i think what some experts had been saying is that this could be part of a well known russian strategy here to play with western fears of a nuclear escalation in this conflict. find escalation in this conflict. and president escalation in this conflict. and president putin escalation in this conflict. and president putin on escalation in this conflict. and president putin on state television on saturday said that the liberation leader was long raised the issue of stationing tactical nuclear weapons in belarus. have we heard from him at all? ~ . ., in belarus. have we heard from him at all? ~ . . ~ at all? we haven t and i think that s why at all? we haven t and i think that s why there at all? we haven t and i think that s why there wasn t - at all? we haven t and i think that s why there wasn t a - at all? we haven t and i t
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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 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. just talk us through what happened. i think what we ve seen since the beginning of the conflict is that president putin and senior russian officials have frequently talked about nuclear weapons and even the possibility of nuclear weapons being