Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that nuclear facilities of the North Atlantic Alliance countries will become a military target for Russia if they are permanently deployed in Poland.
According to him, the expansion of the practice of the alliance’s nuclear missions, regardless of the countries that may join it, is exclusively destabilising, threatening in nature.
Ryabkov added that all politicians who are discussing in Poland and beyond its borders the deployment of nuclear facilities should understand that such decisions will not add to Poland’s security and the facilities in question “will definitely become a target.”
Earlier, Polish President Andrzej Duda said he was ready to deploy US nuclear weapons on Polish territory.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the North Atlantic Alliance does not have any plans to deploy nuclear forces in Poland and other NATO countries.
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitriy Peskov said that Russia would take measures in case of the deployment of US nuclear weapons in Poland.