Kremlin warns Lithuania against hosting Western nuclear weapons
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If Lithuania places nuclear weapons on its territory, it will become the target of the Strategic Forces of Russia, warned Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov this Friday, commenting on the willingness of the Baltic nation to eliminate from its Constitution the prohibition of the placement of these weapons. "If nuclear weapons appear in this territory directed against us, correspondingly the territory of the country will be in the point of view of ou…
The President of the Lithuanian Parliament stated that the country is planning to adopt a constitutional amendment shortly to eliminate the ban on the installation of weapons of mass destruction in Lithuania.
Kremlin warns Lithuania against hosting Western nuclear weapons
Lithuanian territory may "come into the sights" of Russia's nuclear arsenal should Vilnius decide to host such arms, Russian state news agency RIA cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Friday.
In the Kremlin, Lithuania ' s plans to lift the ban on the deployment of nuclear weapons on its territory were responded to.
The head of the Kremlin Press Service, Dmitri Peskov, commenting on the very controversial decision of the Lithuanian authorities to lift the ban on the deployment of nuclear weapons, stressed that, if implemented, it would become a very serious escalation.
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