Kremlin officials have affirmed on Tuesday that There are “few possibilities” of achieving a new treaty to reduce nuclear weapons between the US and Russia. They claim that there is not enough confidence and warn that other countries could acquire weapons of this type.
According to the media “The gloomy statements of Moscow” occur in the midst of the “disintegration of the tangle of arms control treaties” that sought to stop the arms race and reduce the risk of a nuclear war. In statements collected by the Digital, the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry PeskovHe said that “it is very difficult to imagine even the beginning of such conversations.”
“To discuss such complex strategic issues,” said the Russian spokesman, “it is necessary that there are A certain level of mutual trust that has not yet been restored between Moscow and Washington“Even so,” it could be, “if President Trump and Putin” had the political will. ”
According to the disseminated information, Russia and the United States are the “largest” nuclear powers in the world, with about 88% of the world’s weapons. They are followed by China, France, Great Britain, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea.
In this sense, the war in Ukraine “has triggered the worst confrontation between Moscow and the West from the Cuba missile crisis in 1962”, which is considered “the moment in which both powers were closer to a nuclear war.”
The Russian vice president Dmitry Medvedev He said that “more countries” will obtain nuclear weapons in the coming years. In addition, he blamed the West of pushing “everyone” on the edge of the third World War “by riding a war of power against Russia in Ukraine.”
