Russia has threatened to deploy nuclear weapons to the Baltic if Sweden and Finalnd join NATO
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, speaking in Moscow in February 2022. Photo: Alexey Nikolsky/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images
Russia has threatened to bolster its defenses in the Baltic, including deploying nuclear weapons to the region, if Sweden and Finland joined NATO, according toDmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, issued the warning Thursday, per Reuters.
"Until today, Russia has not taken such measures and was not going to," Medvedev said, implying that Russia has not already deployed nuclear weapons to the Baltic.Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas said Russia already has nuclear weapons in its Kaliningrad enclave. "The current Russian threats look quite strange, when we know that, even without the present security situation, they keep the weapon 100 km from Lithuania's border," Anusauskas said, according to Reuters.
"Nuclear weapons have always been kept in Kaliningrad ... the international community, the countries in the region, are perfectly aware of this ... They use it as a threat," he added.
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