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| US contacted Russia on the issue of nuclear weapons in space |
| 2024-02-24 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Note: Russia has had anti-satellite capability since the days of Leonid Brezhnev. [Regnum] The United States privately issued a warning to Russia about the inadmissibility of placing nucle£! ar weapons in space. The Wall Street Journal reported this on February 22, citing sources in the White House. In particular, it is alleged that US President Joseph Biden's National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and CIA Director William Burns established communication channels with Moscow. Sullivan contacted Yuri Ushakov, an adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin on foreign policy, and Burns last week contacted the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergei Naryshkin. In turn, a representative of the White House National Security Council confirmed information about contacts with the Russian side regarding the proposed deployment of anti-satellite weapons, but refused to provide specific information about sensitive channels of interaction with Moscow. Earlier, Regnum news agency reported that the United States believes that Russia is potentially ready to deploy nuclear weapons in space as early as 2024. According to sources, there is allegedly a risk of a nuclear explosion, which could potentially affect about a third of the satellites and damage communications systems on Earth. Washington warned allies about the threat allegedly posed by Russia, and President Biden said the Kremlin was allegedly developing anti-satellite space weapons that did not pose a direct threat to human life. At the same time, on February 20, Russian leader Vladimir Putin recalled that Russia has always been a country that opposed the militarization of space, especially the deployment of nuclear weapons there. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov last week called reports of Russian plans to launch nuclear weapons into space a ploy by the US administration. He clarified that the United States has not yet approached Russia about joint work on the issue of anti-satellite weapons. According to Peskov, this is an obvious desire of the White House to get Congress to agree on a bill to provide financial assistance to Kyiv. |
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