Russia insists that US nuclear weapons be withdrawn from Europe and the entire infrastructure for their deployment in this part of the world be dismantled.
This was stated by the head of the Russian delegation to the Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), Ambassador at Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrei Belousov, TASS reported, quoted by Focus.
“Given the potential to strike critical civilian and military infrastructure on Russian territory, US nuclear weapons deployed in Europe are essentially strategic“, said the diplomat.