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Russia and Poland have traded threats of a wider conflict taking over Europe, which could turn nuclear, if Nato moves warheads to its Eastern Flank.
Polish president Andrzej Duda confirmed on Thursday that he had invited prime minister Donald Tusk for talks on May 1 about the possibility of nuclear weapons from another alliance member being deployed in the country.
This is in response to the Kremlin relocating tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, as a signal of deterrence to the West.
Duda’s comments sparked a flurry of angry responses from Russian officials, and even his own PM, who was caught in the dark about his president’s plans.
Russia had already branded the move as ‘provocation’ and now deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov warned that his government’s patience is not ‘limitless’.
‘If Poland takes the path of further escalation – these verbal games with nuclear weapons – then it means there will be a further round of tension,’ he …
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