On Thursday in Britain, the US C-17 aircraft landed, which came from the Kirtland Air Base, where the US stores nuclear bombs. Russia said that their resorts were following the situation in the area to ensure their safety.
Russia said on Tuesday that it had recorded an increase in tensions in the world and monitors development after the British Times and Telegraph reported that the United States had reportedly placed nuclear weapons in Britain for the first time since 2008. According to Reuters report, TASR reports this.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the question of these reports that Russia “sees a line to escalate tension, militarization, including nuclear militarization”. “Our resorts monitor developments in this area and ensure our safety on the background of what is happening,” he added.
The US has probably placed nuclear weapons in Britain for the first time in more than 17 years, and experts believe according to Telegraph. On Thursday, the RAF Lakenheath base in the Count Suffolk was visited by the American C-17 airliner, which came from the Kirtland Air Base in New Mexico, where the US Air Force Nuclear Bomb Store. According to analysts, it is likely that such bombs were on the plane. Experts also recalled that last week’s flight of the C-17 aircraft was very similar to previous US aviation missions aimed at transporting nuclear bombs.
Telegraph has previously revealed details of the upcoming “nuclear mission” in Lakenheath in declassified documents that the US government has published probably by mistake.
The United Kingdom has recently announced that it will also buy its own F-35A aircraft squadron, which, according to a confirmation of the Ministry of Defense, could also drop nuclear gravitational bombs. These aircraft are expected to be equipped with US weapons stored in Britain. London will thus have a capacity to drop nuclear weapons from the air for the first time since the discarding of the gravity bomb in 1998, writes Telegraph.
