Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the idea of providing nuclear weapons to Ukraine extremely extreme, TASS reported, quoted by BTA.
Discussions in the West about arming Ukraine with nuclear weapons are "absolutely irresponsible," Peskov said at a briefing today, quoted by Reuters.
He made this comment on the occasion of a publication in the American c. "New York Times", which, referring to American representatives, suggests such actions, the world agency points out.
"The New York Times" wrote last week that, according to his sources, US President Joe Biden may give nuclear weapons to Kiev before handing over power in the White House to his successor Donald Trump in January, Reuters notes.
"These are absolutely irresponsible reflections of people who probably perceive and imagine reality wrongly and who do not have an iota of responsibility in making such statements. We should also note that the assumptions in question were made anonymously," Peskov told media representatives in connection with the publication.
Ukraine inherited nuclear weapons from the collapsed Soviet Union in 1991, but 3 he later handed them over in exchange for guarantees of his safety from Russia, the United States and Great Britain, Reuters recalls.
Russia's war in Ukraine, which marked 1,000 days on November 19, has escalated over actions by both sides after Ukrainian forces fired US and British missiles into Russian territory for the first time - with Western permission production, and Moscow responded by launching a hypersonic ballistic missile from Astrakhan against the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, notes Reuters.
Also asked about the danger of increasing tensions in the area of nuclear weapons, the Kremlin spokesman said that the West should "listen carefully" Putin and read the updated Russian nuclear doctrine, which lowered the threshold for the possibility of using nuclear weapons.
At the same time, the head of Russian foreign intelligence, Sergei Naryshkin, said today that Moscow is against the conflict in Ukraine simply being frozen, as a "sustainable and lasting peace" that eradicates the causes of the crisis is needed.
In his words, Russian forces have the initiative on the battlefield. Naryshkin added that Moscow is open to negotiations.