Putin: Russia is firmly against the deployment of nuclear weapons in space
| Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied claims that Russia has acquired space-based nuclear weapons. |
reported by Mehr News Agency quoted by Rashatodi, Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed on Tuesday that Moscow has always opposed the deployment of nuclear weapons in space and demands compliance with all existing agreements in this field.
He clarified: This question is related to the uproar that has recently been raised in the West, including in the United States, regarding the deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and our position is clear and unambiguous. We have always been against and we are still against the deployment of nuclear weapons in space.
The Russian president noted that the United States cannot simultaneously demand the defeat of Russia and talk about strategic stability.
He said: America and the West, on the one hand, want the strategic defeat of Russia, and on the other hand, they claim that they are ready and willing to negotiate with us in the field of strategic stability, and they believe that two issues They have nothing to do with each other – this will not be possible. If they are looking for our strategic failure, “we must independently think about what strategic stability means for our country.”
He emphasized that Russia “does not reject anything, but we need to know what they want”. The Russian president concluded: “As a general rule, they want to achieve unilateral advantages, which does not happen.”
According to the report of Rasha Todi, Sergei Shoigu, the Minister of Defense of Russia also said in the meeting with Putin that “there is no project to deploy nuclear weapons in space.”
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov, explaining the news based on the possibility of Russia acquiring a space nuclear weapon, said that the United States is spreading malicious claims to show unpleasant actions and intentions to Moscow attributes that it does not correspond to reality.
