Russia has not deployed and does not plan to deploy nuclear weapons in space.
Defense Minister Serghei Shoigu said this, according to Tass reports.
An alarm about Moscow's new military capabilities in space was raised in recent days by the United States.
The US Congress, in fact, had spoken of a "serious threat to national security", identified by the White House with "Moscow's new capabilities in space against satellites".
However, the spokesman for the National Security Council John Kirby did not want to reveal their nature or even say whether they are nuclear capabilities, as leaked in the American media.
However, Kirby clarified that "this is not an immediate and active threat", meaning that these capabilities "have not yet been deployed".
And he reported that Joe Biden has ordered a series of response actions, starting with diplomatic action with Moscow, also because the development of Russian capabilities would violate a 1967 treaty that bans weapons of mass destruction in space.
However, it appears clear that the new 'weapon' would be able to hit the vast network of US satellites and therefore destroy civil communications, the surveillance system from space and also the command and control network of military operations by Washington and of his allies.
Without the US currently having tools capable of countering such an eventuality, despite the Space Force created in 2019 by Donald Trump.
Moscow responded by denying everything: "It's another ploy by the White House to try, by hook or by crook, to push Congress to approve aid to Kiev", accused Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov.
"Malicious inventions", echoed Deputy Foreign Minister Serghei Ryabkov, a point of reference on arms control and Russia's nuclear policy.
"If the
US makes any kind of claim, it should back it up with evidence," he urged.
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