NATO's Kremlin Response To 'Threats' Prepare Nuclear Weapons: Only Adding Tensions

Dmitry Peskov. (Wikimedia Commons/men's

JAKARTA - The Kremlin responded to NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg's remarks about talks on the deployment of more nuclear weapons as an escalation that sparked renewed tensions.

NATO is in talks to alert more nuclear weapons, remove them from the warehouse and put them on standby, Stoltenberg told The Telegraph newspaper.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Stoltenberg's comments contradicted the Ukrainian Conference's communique which said any threats or use of nuclear weapons in the context of Ukraine was unacceptable.

"This is just an increase in tension," Peskov said commenting on Stoltenberg's statement.

Russia says the United States and its European allies are pushing the world into the brink of a nuclear confrontation by giving Ukraine billions of dollars worth of weapons, some of which are used to attack Russian territory.

Russia and the United States have so far been the largest nuclear power in the world, which controls about 88 percent of the world's nuclear weapons, according to the American Federation of Scientists.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg previously told the British Telegraph newspaper there was direct consultation between members to use transparency around his nuclear arsenal as a precautionary measure.

"I will not explain the operational details of how many nuclear warheads must be operated and which should be stored, but we need to consult on this issue. That's what we did," he told the newspaper.

Transparency helps communicate a direct message that we, of course, are a nuclear alliance.

NATO's goal, of course, is a world without nuclear weapons, but as long as nuclear weapons still exist, we will remain a nuclear alliance, because the world where Russia, China, and North Korea have nuclear weapons, and NATO doesn't have them, is a world that doesn't have nuclear weapons. a more dangerous world."