Tensions on the border Ukraine-Russia refuses to subside:
"There are a variety of options to retaliatory steps on the part of Russia in case NATO deployed near our borders weapons", announced today (Monday) press secretary told reporters President Putin and the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Pskov, Asked about the possibility that Moscow Will place nuclear weapons in its neighbor Belarus.
"It's no secret. The deployment of (NATO) types of weapons within our borders, which could pose a threat to us, would require taking appropriate steps to balance the situation.
There are a variety of options here, "Peskov said.
Pro-Russian separatists on the Ukrainian border: "Do not see the end of the crisis" // Photo: Reuters
Earlier, Belarus' Foreign Minister Vladimir Maki said his country was ready to deploy Russian nuclear weapons on the ground in the event of a threat from NATO forces. In Poland.
Against the backdrop of continuing tensions with Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin called on NATO to begin substantive negotiations with a view to providing Russia with reliable and long-term security guarantees in exchange for a cessation of tensions. Previous ones "did not fulfill their obligations to Moscow when these were said orally.
Russian President Putin and Belarusian President Lukashenko.
United Against NATO, Photo: AP
The current threat comes after Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said two weeks ago that Russia might be forced to deploy medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe in response to what it sees as NATO plans to do the same. Since then, the Cold War has ended three decades ago.
Ryabkov said Russia would be forced to act in this way if the West, with its emphasis on the United States, continued to refuse to sign a freeze on a number of medium-range nuclear warheads (INFs) in Europe.
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