US says no indication Russia has moved nuclear weapons

SpaceWar.com reports: “The United States has seen no indication that Russia has yet moved any nuclear weapons, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Sunday, after Moscow announced it would station tactical nuclear arms in Belarus.

President Vladimir Putin’s announcement on Saturday that Russia would station tactical nuclear weapons in neighbor and ally Belarus sparked condemnation from the international bodies and Ukraine, which Moscow invaded last February.

‘We have not seen any indication that he (Putin) has made good on this pledge or moved any nuclear weapons around,’ Kirby told CBS’s ‘Face the Nation.’

With fears of a nuclear war rising since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, experts believe that any strike carried out by Moscow would likely involve small-size battlefield weapons, called ‘tactical’ as opposed to ‘strategic’ high-powered long-range nuclear weapons.

Kirby said, however, that Washington has ‘seen no indication he has any intention to use nuclear weapons, period, inside Ukraine.’

The United States monitors the situation daily, he added, but that so far there was ‘nothing that would cause us to change our own strategic deterrent posture.’…”

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