While he did not reveal a date for when it will start, Oleksiy Danilov did tell the news outlet it could begin "tomorrow, the day after tomorrow or in a week". Ukraine is ready to begin its counteroffensive operation, one of the country's most senior security officials has told BBC News. The United States has said the world faces the gravest nuclear danger since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis because of remarks by Vladimir Putin during the Ukraine conflict, but Moscow says its position has been misinterpreted. Together with its NATO allies it participates in nuclear sharing arrangements and trains for scenarios of nuclear weapons use against our country," it said. "The United States has been for decades maintaining a large arsenal of its nuclear weapons in Europe. The Russian Embassy called the US criticism hypocritical, saying that "before blaming others, Washington could use some introspection". The US president responded to the reports by saying he had an "extremely negative" reaction to the plans, and the US State Department Russia has dismissed criticism from Joe Biden over its plan to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, saying Washington has done the same thing in Europe for decades.Įarlier this week, Russia said it was pushing ahead with the first deployment of such weapons outside its borders since the fall of the Soviet Union and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said the weapons were already on the move.
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