Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said that the Russian Federation will perceive the dispatch of US tactical nuclear weapons (TNWs) to Britain as a step towards escalation. The diplomat said this at a briefing.
Maria Zakharova said that the Russian Federation would perceive such a step by Washington and London as an escalation in case of sending US TNWs to Britain. The diplomat argues that this decision of the West to go for an “escalation step” takes it in the opposite direction from solving the urgent task of withdrawing all US nuclear weapons from Europe.
“If this step is realised, it will be perceived by us as an escalation, as an escalatory step,” Zakharova summarised.
Recall, earlier The Telegraph newspaper wrote that this winter the United States will deploy two squadrons of fifth-generation F-35A fighter-bombers at the Lakenheath base in the English county of Suffolk.
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