As We've Warned: Russia Says Threat of Nuclear Exchange With U.S. Increasing
Ukraine would have been forced to negotiate with Russia months ago if not for the multi-billion-dollar weapon flows from the West
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Vladimir Yermakov, Russia’s Foreign Ministry’s head of nuclear non-proliferation, said in an interview last month that the risk of a nuclear exchange between Moscow and the U.S. is increasing by the day.
Yermakov echoed previous comments from other Russian leaders when he said Washington’s near limitless support for Ukraine to keep the war rolling is only increasing the risk of a nuclear confrontation.
“The most acute threat today is associated with the danger of nuclear escalation as a result of a direct military confrontation between nuclear powers,” he told TASS, the Russian news agency. “And these risks, to the deepest regret, are steadily growing.”
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Russia is believed to have about 2,000 tactical weapons kept in about 34 bunkers across the country.
Sergei Ryabkov, the Russian deputy foreign minister, told reporters last month that Russia was in a “de facto” war with Washington over Ukraine, and, said the stakes are even higher given the disagreements on the 2010 New START Treaty, which put a limit on the number of deployed strategic nuclear warheads held by the countries at 1,550 each.
The treaty has been extended to 2026. Washington raised the possibility that the treaty is moot because it “cannot certify the Russian Federation to be in compliance with the terms.”
Russia said that since the U.S. has announced that its goal is the strategic defeat of Russia, there can be no business-as-usual and pulled out of the treaty in February.