Russia has ratcheted up tensions with the West amid its ongoing war against Ukraine, with President Vladimir Putin saying Moscow will deploy 'tactical nuclear weapons' in Belarus.
"Russia's nuclear rhetoric is dangerous and irresponsible," Oana Lungescu, a spokesperson for the alliance, said Sunday."Russia's reference to NATO's nuclear sharing is totally misleading. NATO allies act with full respect of their international commitments… Russia has consistently broken its arms control commitments."
"NATO is vigilant and we are closely monitoring the situation," Lungescu said in the statement, adding that the alliance had not, however,"seen any changes in Russia's nuclear posture that would lead us to adjust our own." The Biden administration issued a similarly guarded response, with National Security Council spokesman John Kirby saying Sunday that the White House had also"seen nothing that would indicate Mr. Putin is preparing to use tactical nuclear weapons in any way whatsoever in Ukraine."
"I can also tell you that we haven't seen anything that would cause us to change our own strategic nuclear deterrent posture," Kirby said.Ukrainian national security chief Oleksiy Danilov accused Russia of holding its small ally Belarus, which sits just north of Ukraine,"hostage" with the plan to deploy nuclear weapons in the country.The escalating rhetoric from Putin comes as his ground war increasingly appears stalled on the muddy battlefields of eastern Ukraine.
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