He announced on Monday that Russia will not test nuclear weapons. Vladimir Putin The Russian president's representative for arms control, but on condition that the United States refrain from conducting tests.
Reuters reports that the Russian state newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta published an interview last week. Andre Senesinelwhere the head of the Novaya Zemlya nuclear test site claimed that the site is ready to resume large-scale testing.
Sergei Ryabkov But the deputy foreign minister and arms control commissioner said on Monday: “Nothing has changed.”
As the President of the Russian Federation has specified and made clear, we can conduct such tests, but we will not do so if the United States refrains from such actions.
He said.
Ryabkov added that preparations were underway at the nuclear test site to make it “fully ready” in response to the actions of the United States, which he said had developed its own infrastructure for testing.
The United States and its European allies are currently debating whether to give Ukraine permission to use missiles it has acquired with Western support deep inside Russia. There has been talk recently that Russia may resume nuclear testing.
