The United States is silent about its plans to deploy new nuclear weapons and the fact that NATO’s military infrastructure is approaching Russia’s borders. This was stated on Wednesday, April 21, by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.
Thus, she commented on the report of the US State Department, released on April 15, “On the observance and implementation of agreements and obligations in the field of arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament.”
Zakharova drew attention to the fact that the report “unfairly replaces a serious analysis of the situation in this area” with attempts to expose the Russian side, which keeps all non-strategic nuclear weapons undeployed on national territory, in a departure from the voluntary “presidential initiatives” of 1991-1992.
As the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasizes, at the same time, the actions of the States themselves and their allies to practice the skills of using American non-strategic nuclear weapons deployed in Europe within the framework of NATO’s so-called “joint nuclear missions” “.
“At the same time, tectonic shifts in the field of European security caused by the approach of NATO’s military-strategic infrastructure to the Russian borders, as well as the US’s own plans to deploy new nuclear weapons contrary to the aforementioned” presidential initiatives “are hushed up,” Zakharova noted.
On April 13, a report by the American intelligence community with an assessment of global threats was also published. In no, it was said that Russia is not interested in a direct armed conflict with the United States, but is the largest threat to the United States in space and cyberspace, as well as “the most powerful adversary in the field of weapons of mass destruction.”
The report also noted that the Russian Federation would allegedly make attempts to undermine the influence of the United States, weaken the alliances of Western countries and show its ability to “manage the course of world events as a major player in a new multipolar world order.”
On January 22 of this year, the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty entered into force. Then it was ratified by more than 50 countries. The Russian Foreign Ministry noted that the agreement contradicts Russia’s vision of how to move forward along the path of nuclear disarmament.