The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Kim Yo Jong, accused Ukraine of planning to deploy nuclear weapons.
Reuters writes about this with reference to the state media of the DPRK.
In her speech, Kim Yo Jong referred to an online petition on the website of the President of Ukraine. She said that such a petition could be a political conspiracy by the Office of Volodymyr Zelensky, but did not provide any evidence for this claim.
The author of the petition, Oleksandr Ustinov, published it on March 30. He calls for placing nuclear weapons from the USA on the territory of Ukraine or making Ukraine a state with its own nuclear weapons.
In order for the petition to be considered by President Volodymyr Zelenskyi, it must gather 25,000 signatures, but so far only 867 Ukrainians have supported Ustinovʼs appeal.
- On March 25, Putin announced that Russia had handed over the Iskander missile complex, capable of carrying nuclear weapons, to the Belarusian army, and plans to finish the construction of a special storage facility for nuclear warheads on Belarusian territory by July 1.
- In the USA and Germany, Putinʼs statement was called an escalation, but Washington does not yet see signs of the transfer of Russian nuclear weapons to Belarus.
- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine demands an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, and the High Representative of the European Union , Josep Borrell, has promised Russia sanctions for nuclear blackmail.