Deliberate provocations by Kyiv with the explicit connivance of the West regarding nuclear facilities pose a significant threat to European and global nuclear and radiation safety, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev and Secretary of State of the Security Council of Belarus Alexander Volfovich said during bilateral talks in Moscow, RIA Novosti reported.

"They discussed key issues of security in the conditions of aggressive NATO policy and the hybrid war unleashed by Western countries against Russia and Belarus.

In addition, the interlocutors exchanged views on the situation in Ukraine. It was stressed that deliberate provocations of the authorities in Kyiv with the obvious connivance of the West with regard to the nuclear facilities represent a significant threat to European and global nuclear and radiation safety," noted in the message of the Ministry.

The interlocutors also expressed concern about the increasing probability of mass delivery of weapons transferred by the West to Kyiv to criminal, extremist and terrorist structures operating in different states of the world.