Poland is ready to host NATO nuclear weapons, if the Alliance decides to further strengthen its eastern flank in the face of Russia’s weapons deployment in nearby Kaliningrad and Belarus. President Andrzej Duda stated this in an interview with a local newspaper ‘Fakt’, explaining that “if our allies decide to deploy nuclear weapons within the framework of nuclear sharing on our territory to strengthen the security of NATO’s eastern flank, we are ready to do it.”
Poland, a NATO member and staunch supporter of Ukraine, borders both the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad and Belarus, Moscow’s ally. Duda spoke to Polish media after a visit to New York, where he held meetings at the UN and discussed the war in Ukraine with former US President Donald Trump. In March he visited Washington, where he met US President Joe Biden.
Discussions on nuclear cooperation between Poland and the United States have been ongoing “for some time,” he said. “I must admit that when I was asked to talk about it, I declared our readiness. Russia is increasingly militarizing the Kaliningrad district. It recently transferred its nuclear weapons to Belarus“, he underlined again.
Lavrov: “West on the brink of a military clash between nuclear powers”
Western countries are on the brink of a direct military confrontation between nuclear powerswarned Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in a video link with the Non-Proliferation Conference in Moscow, specifying that “today the United States and their NATO client states still dream of inflicting a ‘strategic defeat’ on Russia and they are ready to carry out their policy of deterrence towards our country ‘to the last Ukrainian’. At the same time, the West stands on the dangerous brink of a direct military confrontation between the nuclear powers, which could have catastrophic consequences. “.
According to the top Russian diplomat, it is particularly worrying that the three Western nuclear powers are among the main sponsors of the Kiev regime and among the main promoters of various incendiary moves. “This could create serious strategic risks and increase the level of nuclear threat,” Lavrov noted.
