Last week it became known that the US Air Force was planning to build a dormitory at the RAF military air base at Lakenheath in Suffolk, for staff who would allegedly work in handling nuclear weapons, he wrote. Watchman.

The newspaper claims that this may indicate the possibility of the return of US nuclear weapons to British soil for the first time in more than 15 years. media like daily Mail And bloomberg He mentioned this as well.

This news, among other things, prompted the Russian authorities to respond.

Warning from Putin and Co.

Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, warned the United States against transferring nuclear weapons to the British Isles.

– If this step is taken, we will see it as an escalation, according to what was reported by the Guardian newspaper.

It adds that this development “will force Russia to take countervailing measures to protect the security interests of our country and our allies.”

The US authorities have not yet commented on whether it is true that they plan to store nuclear weapons in Lakenheath.

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Russia itself is transporting nuclear weapons

Russia announced in June that it planned to transfer nuclear weapons to Belarus, which borders Russia and Ukraine. In this case, it would be the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union that the country provided nuclear weapons to its allies, the Guardian writes.

Matt Korda, a senior researcher at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), who first discovered the US budget line at Lakenheath, believes it testifies to Russian double standards.

Although the possible return of US nuclear weapons to British soil is certainly worth scrutiny, it is a little odd that it should come from a government that has spent the past year embarking on exactly the same thing with Belarus, he told the newspaper.

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