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NATO countries’ nuclear facilities to be permanently installed in Poland will become a military target for Russia, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the Russian state news agency TASSZ on Thursday.
“There is no doubt that the NATO’s joint nuclear missions the extension of its practice – regardless of which country or countries join those already participating in this practice – is clearly destabilizing.
It is a real threat“
– said the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
According to the diplomat, the approach of the joint nuclear missions of the NATO countries to the border intensifies the threat to the Russian Federation.
Not to mention the permanent installation that the hotheads are talking about They also started in Warsaw speak”
Ryabkov said. “Therefore, all those politicians who are now enthusiastically discussing such a plan in Poland and beyond its borders should understand: moves in this direction will not increase Poland’s security, and the objects themselves they definitely become a target. And in our military planning, they come to the fore” he added.
The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister “as a story in the making” called the debate about the deployment of NATO nuclear facilities in Poland.
He emphasized that Moscow is monitoring how “different elements of the Polish executive, and not only how they shape this topic in their internal discourse”.
(MTI)
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