The Russian Presidency, the Kremlin, said on Monday that statements by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg about talks to deploy more nuclear weapons represent an escalation.
Stoltenberg told the British newspaper The Telegraph that the alliance is criminalizing incidents of deploying more nuclear weapons, removing them from warehouses and putting them on readiness, in the face of an increasing threat from Russia and China.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Stoltenberg’s statements seem to contradict the statement of the Ukraine conference, which said that any threat or use of nuclear weapons in relation to what is happening in Ukraine is unacceptable.
Peskov added about Stoltenberg’s statements, “This is nothing but another escalation of tension.”
Russia says that the United States and its European allies are pushing the world to the brink of a nuclear confrontation by giving Ukraine billions of dollars in weapons, some of which are being used against Russian territory.
According to the Federation of American Scientists, Russia and the United States are the two largest nuclear powers in the world by a large margin, as they possess about 88 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons.
According to the Journal of Atomic Scientists, the United States possesses about 100 non-strategic B61 nuclear weapons deployed in five European countries: Italy, Germany, Turkey, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The United States has another 100 such weapons within its borders.
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