United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu said the world must de-escalate tensions over the risk of nuclear weapons, which is higher today than at the height of the Cold War.. She stated this during a meeting of the Security Council.

" I want to reiterate, states should avoid any action that leads to escalation. For the safety of all of us, I urge the Russian Federation, the US and the UN to talk about returning to a new nuclear weapons treaty.. These actions are essential for international stability,"

At the same time, representatives of the United States and Great Britain believe that Russia is trying to mislead the world with its statements about the deployment of nuclear weapons in Belarus for self-defense..

" It is obvious that armor-piercing shells are by no means equivalent to nuclear weapons.. This announcement is not related to the weapons that, by the way, are in Russia,"

He added that Russia is trying to escalate the war against Ukraine and condemned Belarus for complicity in the armed aggression of the Russian Federation..

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" The Belarusian regime is simply serving Putin's interests.

We condemn the Lukashenka regime for complicity in the war in Ukraine,"

The representative of the United Kingdom to the UN, James Karuki, stressed that Russia is well aware that the armor-piercing shells that Britain transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not nuclear weapons..

" And that Russia only defends itself in accordance with the UN Charter. Russia knows very well that these are conventional weapons, not nuclear weapons.. And this is another example of. how Russia is misleading everyone,"

Norwegian intelligence has provided possible scenarios for when and how Russia will use a nuclear weapon.