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The Kremlin responded to Biden's words about reducing nuclear potential
Moscow considers this impossible under current circumstances.
The Kremlin believes that it is impossible to talk about reducing nuclear potential without taking into account other security aspects in the context of the ongoing war with Russia involving nuclear powers. The press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov commented on the statements of US President Joe Biden that the world should work to completely eliminate nuclear weapons. The head of the White House also confirmed the US readiness to negotiate with Russia, China and North Korea in this direction.
"Listen, in a situation where there is a war against Russia, and nuclear powers like the US, UK and France are indirectly and even directly involved in it, it is absolutely impossible to talk about this without establishing connections. This is a topic for all other aspects of security. And indeed, our president has already spoken about this," Peskov said, answering a question about whether the Kremlin allows such talks with the American side. This was reported by RIA Novosti.
According to him, Russia needs such contacts and believes that they cannot be "postponed." All security issues must be considered comprehensively, taking into account the current situation, the Kremlin representative noted.
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev called the US President's comments rude and said that discussing an agreement with the US on reducing strategic nuclear weapons would be "no more useful than negotiations with Hitler in 1945." "There is a truce." In his opinion, the US is "almost in a full-scale war" with Russia and wants its "strategic defeat."