Lavrov accused the United States in preparing Europe for the use of nuclear weapons against Russia

He stressed that Russia does not possess tactical nuclear weapons and does not practice their use.

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Speaking at an international conference on disarmament in Geneva, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the preservation of American non-strategic nuclear weapons in Europe and the United States’s "joint nuclear missions" with non-nuclear members of NATO was an obstacle to further nuclear disarmament, "Voice of America".

“It should be clear to everyone that in this way the US military is preparing the armed forces of the European countries to use tactical nuclear weapons against Russia,” the CNBC television channel quoted the Russian minister.

Lavrov also noted that his country does not have deployed tactical nuclear weapons, does not practice its use, and also places all tactical nuclear munitions solely at the central storage bases on its territory.

“Russia does not have deployed tactical nuclear weapons and is not testing their use. We have concentrated the available ammunition at central storage bases on our national territory,” the minister was quoted as saying. TASS. “Under these conditions, the presence of US tactical nuclear weapons in Europe ready for use is not just a vestige of the Cold War, but a clearly aggressive position.”

Recall that in the 2018 published by the Pentagon in February of the year “Nuclear Policy Review»The United States was a detailed assessment of nuclear threats and an action strategy in this area.

As noted in the review, “the United States must have a modern, multifunctional and sustainable nuclear capability that must remain safe and reliable until the world is prudently freed from nuclear weapons.”

However, it is emphasized in the document, “while the United States continues to reduce the number and reduce the importance of nuclear weapons, other countries, including Russia and China, are moving in the opposite direction. They are replenishing their arsenals with new types of nuclear weapons, reinforcing the role of nuclear forces in their strategies and plans, and are behaving more and more aggressively, including in outer space and in cyberspace. ”

“Russia continues to violate a number of treaties and obligations on arms control. In the nuclear context, the most significant of the violations committed by Russia is associated with a system prohibited by the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles. In a broader context, Russia either refuses its obligations under numerous agreements or avoids their fulfillment, ”the document says.

Of particular concern is Russia's activity in the field of tactical nuclear weapons, with a capacity of less than 20 kilotons (the approximate power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945), which is not regulated by international and bilateral agreements. The Pentagon fears that the relative low power of tactical nuclear weapons may lower its use threshold.

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons was signed by the USSR, the USA and other countries in the 1960s. Now almost all countries have joined it, except for Israel, India, Pakistan and the DPRK. Russia and the US have repeatedly accused each other of non-compliance with the contract.

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