Kyiv seeks UN meet on Russia's nuke plan

KYIV: Ukraine said on Sunday it was seeking an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to counter Russia's "nuclear blackmail" after President Vladimir Putin announced that his country would station tactical nuclear arms in Belarus.

The Russian leader said the deployment was similar to moves by the United States, which stores such weapons in bases across Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey — an analogy Western allies called "misleading."