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War: Our strategic forces are monitoring Russia – US

  By John Owen Nwachukwu   A senior US defence official has described Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ‘cavalier’ language around the ...

 


By John Owen Nwachukwu

 

A senior US defence official has described Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ‘cavalier’ language around the nuclear-capable missile systems pledged to Belarus as pretty irresponsible.

 

“Our strategic forces are always monitoring things in that regard,” said the official in a background call with reporters, CNN reports.

 

“We are certainly taking that seriously and have taken that threat seriously from the very beginning.

 

“Certainly any time anybody uses the word nuclear, you have concerns. Quite honestly it seems pretty irresponsible of a national leader to talk about the employment of nuclear weapons and to do so in a generally cavalier fashion.

 

“In terms of my concerns, other than the fact that they talk about, again, I mean the way that that statement read from Putin was, hey we’re going to give them Iskanders, and oh by the way they can hold nuclear weapons.

 

“And everybody takes that very seriously when you use that language. So we are certainly taking that seriously and have taken that threat seriously from the very beginning.

 

“And as you know our strategic forces are always monitoring things in that regard.”

 

Russian President, Vladimir Putin had on Saturday told Belarusian President, Alexander Lukashenko that Russia will transfer nuclear-capable Iskander-M missile systems to Belarus over the coming months.


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