Belarus a Kremlin 'hostage' with deployment of Russian nuclear weapons, says Ukraine

Iskander missile systems outside the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade, in May 2021. President Vladimir Putin said the weapons were being sent to Belarus at the request of the country's leader Alexander Lukashenko. Photograph: Sergey Ponomarev/New York Times Dan McLaughlin Ukraine has called for an urgent international response to Russia's decision to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, a country which Kyiv said would effectively become a Kremlin "hostage" once the missiles were deployed. Russian president Vladimir Putin said the weapons would remain under his military's control while on the territory of…