The Russian presidency said on Monday that Western reactions would not change Moscow’s plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus.
Western reactions “of course cannot influence Russian plans” to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, Russian news agency TASS quoted Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced recently that Russia would station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, in addition to ten warplanes capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
In response to a question about the possibility of Russia demanding compensation for the bombing of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea, Peskov said that it is necessary to determine those responsible for this act of sabotage, adding that preliminary data indicates the impossibility of carrying out this act without the participation of countries and intelligence services with great capabilities.
Peskov accused the Western countries of trying hard to prevent the topic from being raised in international forums, saying that Russia will work to raise the issue of the Nord Stream for discussion and not allow it to be obscured.
Russia urged the United Nations to conduct an international investigation into the issue of the bombing of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea last September.
The Russian Public Prosecutor had instituted a criminal case to investigate this incident, which led to the cutting off gas supplies to Europe. (end) as.lr
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