The Kremlin has issued a warning of escalating nuclear tensions and as such Moscow is taking immediate action to protect themselves.
The Kremlin will not hold a summit for the “Nuclear Five” as they see “escalating tensions” within the “nuclear sphere.”
The Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Vladimir Putin believes there is “clearly no basis” to hold the “Nuclear Five” summit with members of the United Nations Security Council.
Tass reported Peskov saying, “We see a course towards escalating tensions, toward militarisation, including in the nuclear sphere.
“Our relevant agencies are monitoring the developments in this area and developing measures to ensure our security in the current context.”
the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) warned in June that nuclear tensions as dramatically increased.
ICAN said that in 2024 nuclear nations have increased their nuclear spending, they spent almost a further $10 billion on their nuclear programmes last year compared to 2023.
The ICAN report is titled “Hidden Costs: Nuclear Weapons Spending 2024,” Newsweek reported.
The report in June says, “The threat of nuclear use persists, as several nuclear-armed countries wage wars and issue implicit and explicit threats to use these weapons of mass destruction.”
Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Russian State Duma said, “An attack on the Kaliningrad Region will mean an attack on Russia, with all due retaliatory measures, stipulated, among other things, by its nuclear doctrine.”
