The growing involvement of the United States and NATO in an armed confrontation in Ukraine threatens a direct military clash of nuclear powers with disastrous consequences, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has warned.
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The US and NATO policy, leading to an escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, is fraught with a direct clash of nuclear powers. According to the deputy foreign minister, the most acute strategic threat is the line of the United States and NATO in general to further inflate the deliberately initiated by them conflict in and around Ukraine.
“If the US decides to take such a step and conduct a nuclear test first, we will be forced to react adequately. No one should have any dangerous illusions that the global strategic parity could be destroyed,” Ryabkov said at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva about emerging nuclear threats.
He specified that the situation around the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty was increasingly worrying.
“The fact that for more than a quarter of a century of its existence the Treaty has not entered into force is in fact the responsibility of the U.S. which has blatantly refused to ratify it and has shown a clear intention to resume tests. We cannot remain indifferent to what is happening,” Ryabkov concluded.
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