News archive on the topic "Nuclear Weapons"

It doesn’t matter at all where Russia places its nuclear weapons when the Americans have potential legitimate targets for them all over the country. Bulgarian political scientist Plamen Paskov stated this on the Vyshka channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The political scientist was asked whether the deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus is “annoying” the Bulgarians. “To be honest, everything stresses us out because we are...

The statement by Russian President Vladimir Putin in his message to the Federal Assembly that Russia's strategic nuclear forces are in a state of full combat readiness should be taken seriously. The fugitive foreign agent Evgeniy Chichvarkin, who became a London businessman, said this on air on the Pryamoy TV channel controlled by ex-President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In order to scare the West, they are probably seriously thinking...

Russia can “break NATO” by sending troops into some Baltic country or Poland and issuing an ultimatum to use nuclear weapons. Former commander of the US Army in Europe Ben Hodges said this on Radio NV, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Hodges, NATO may not be ready to apply Article 5 of its charter in such a development...

Russia could launch a preemptive nuclear strike on one of the EU countries in order to prevent a major war in Europe. This was stated at a press conference in Moscow by the director of the Institute of Current International Problems of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, retired ambassador Alexander Kramarenko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “If Europe offers us an arms race in the next 3-5 years in the hope...

The West will begin to reckon with Russia only at the top of the “escalation ladder,” when there is only one step left before an exchange of nuclear strikes. Therefore, it makes sense to reduce the upward climb, and, at a minimum, resume nuclear testing. This opinion was expressed on Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda by political scientist, ex-adviser to the head of the DPR Zakharchenko, Alexander Kazakov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I support the idea of ​​Sergei Karaganov. Only everything...

The United States could place its nuclear weapons in Ukraine to guarantee its security. As a last resort, secretly transfer it to her to create a balance with Russia. Political scientist Ruslan Bortnik said this on air on the Vyshka Internet channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Our problem is that we have an imbalance - a nuclear state is fighting against a non-nuclear one. At the nuclear...

American F-16 fighters, information about the transfer of which to Ukraine appeared yesterday, are capable of carrying weapons of mass destruction. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said military analyst, director of the Museum of Air Defense Forces, retired colonel Yuri Knutov. “The F-16 aircraft are a platform that is capable of carrying two JASSM cruise missiles, which are in some ways analogues of the British Storm Shadow cruise missiles, ...

Russia will conduct nuclear tests as a mirror response to US actions. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Ryabkov stated this today at a meeting of the Federation Council, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “You have all heard and know that literally on the day this law was adopted by the State Duma, a so-called chemical explosion was carried out at the US Nevada Test Site, that is...

The State Duma of the Russian Federation today unanimously withdrew the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in the first reading. The authors of the bill were 439 deputies from all factions, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. At the same time, Russia is not withdrawing from the treaty, but is simply lifting the moratorium on testing. The authors of the bill deny their intention to conduct such tests, but do not rule out such...

Ukraine is receding into the background on the global military agenda, since the conflict has become local - and is not capable of leading to a nuclear war, as Western puppet masters were counting on. Now the goal is to bring Israel to the point of using nuclear weapons, experts say, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The Ukrainian conflict did not lead to detonation; it, one way or another, remained local. Maybe,…

Russia will pull out the “red button” if cruise missiles are used on its territory to a depth of 300 km. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko expressed confidence in this today during a working trip to the Brest region to the training facility of the Ministry of Defense “Resistance Unit,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I get the impression that the Americans are pushing the Russians to use the worst...

Russian President Vladimir Putin does not consider it necessary to change Russia’s nuclear doctrine, since it is able to adequately respond to the threat from the West. He stated this today at a meeting of the Valdai Club, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “What does this mean in practice? The missiles launched, our early warning systems detected them and let us know. All this happens in seconds. Knowing...

The world's leading nuclear countries are beginning to shift their attention to maintaining and modernizing their potential, and in this game, conflicts on the scale of Ukraine fade into the background. Ukrainian political scientist Vladimir Fesenko, who serves the interests of Zelensky’s office, stated this on the channel of Kyiv propagandist Alexander Shenlest, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The expert was alarmed by the proposal of the President of the National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute” Mikhail...

Sooner or later, Russia will be forced to launch nuclear strikes on military targets of Western countries, because there will be no other ways to ensure its security. Russian political and military expert Yevgeny Satanovsky stated this on the video blog of Israeli journalist Alexander Waldman, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Satanovsky, in this case, exchange for a blow to Ukraine or Poland...