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Such a possibility, planned within the framework of NATO, was put forward by President Andrzej Duda during a visit to Canada. In this eventuality, Russia will take “all necessary retaliatory measures to guarantee our security,” the Kremlin said.
Poland is ready to welcome nuclear weapons on its territory if NATO, of which it is a member, decides to strengthen its eastern flank in the face of Russia’s deployment of new weapons in Kaliningrad and neighboring Belarus, the president said Polish Andrzej Duda in an interview published Monday in the popular daily Fakt.
Asked about this possibility, the Kremlin spokesperson affirmed that Russia will guarantee its “security” if this were to happen. “The military will of course analyze the situation and, in any case, will take all necessary retaliatory measures to guarantee our security”Dmitri Peskov told the press.
Kaliningrad increasingly militarized
The Polish head of state, who is currently in Canada after a visit to the United States where he met former President Donald Trump and visited the UN, added that the question of a Potential deployment of nuclear weapons in Poland was the subject of discussions between Poland and the United States “since a while”. “I have already discussed this subject several times”, did he declare. Duda met his American counterpart Joe Biden in March. According to Duda, “Russia is increasingly militarizing the Kaliningrad enclave. It is in the process of transferring its nuclear weapons to Belarus.two territories which are neighbors of Poland.
In June 2023, Vladimir Putin announced that he had transferred the first nuclear weapons to Belarus. At the summit in Vilnius in 2023, the Allies reaffirmed that NATO would “all that is necessary to ensure the credibility, effectiveness, safety and security of its nuclear deterrence mission, including continuing to modernize its nuclear capabilities and updating its planning process”.
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