Moscow is ready and considering a number of steps, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Friday warned incoming US President Donald Trump against nuclear weapons tests. According to him, Moscow is ready and is considering a number of possible steps in such a case, TASR writes based on a Reuters report.
Ryabkov oversees arms control and, according to Russia’s Kommersant daily, says Donald Trump took a radical stance on the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) during his first term in office.
“The international situation is currently extremely complex (and) American policy is today extremely hostile to us in its various aspects,” Riabkov said. no exceptions,” he added.
During his first presidential term, Trump and his cabinet considered the possible conduct of the first US nuclear test since 1992. In 2020, The Washington Post reported on this. Independent Russia has yet to conduct a nuclear test, and the Soviet Union last tested nuclear weapons in 1990. Reuters recalls that Russian President Vladimir Putin only allowed a nuclear weapons test if the United States also conducted it.
