Assistant Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said the United States and its NATO allies should watch for signs that Russia might use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. The warning was issued by the deputy head of US diplomacy at the opening of the alliance’s annual conference on arms control, which takes place this year in North America, reports Reuters.
We have all watched and feared Vladimir Putin using what he sees as non-strategic tactical nuclear weapons, or using some sort of demonstration effect to escalate, but within a controlled risk escalation
Sherman said, adding that it was “important to keep an eye on it.”
The diplomat called the Russian head of state’s statement on Moscow’s deployment of tactical weapons in Belarus an “attempt to use the threat in a controlled manner”. At the same time, the Russian leadership denies the intention to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, according to the publication of the British press agency.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who joined Sherman at the conference, called Russia’s plan to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory part of a decades-long pattern of dangerous and irresponsible nuclear rhetoric.” Moreover, this rhetoric has intensified in the context of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, Stoltenberg argues.
The deputy head of the State Department assured NATO allies that the United States would continue to share intelligence data with all nations of the alliance so that everyone knows “where we stand.”
After the start of the special military operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, NATO countries began to prepare for hostilities on the eastern borders of the alliance. Former senior North Atlantic Alliance officials spoke to the publication about the new tactics NATO nations began using against Russia after the start of the NWO.
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