Russia on Wednesday warned that a low-yield US ballistic missile strike would be seen as a nuclear attack by Moscow and would be responded to accordingly.
Speaking at a video conference in the capital Moscow, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said a recent report by the US Department of Defense on deploying low-yield submarine-launched ballistic missile warheads did not go unnoticed by Russia.
She slammed the US move as “dangerous,” an “element of destabilization” and a “purposeful blurring between non-strategic and strategic weapons,” warning that it would lead to a “lower threshold and an increase in the threat of nuclear conflict.”
“I would like to stress that any attack using a US submarine-launched ballistic missile, regardless of its characteristics, will be perceived as a nuclear-weapon attack. Those who want to speculate about the flexibility of the American nuclear potential should understand that according to the Russian military doctrine, such actions will be considered a foundation for retaliatory use of nuclear weapons by Russia,” she said.
On April 24, the US Pentagon announced that the US Navy had fielded the W76-2 low-yield submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) warhead to deter Russia’s and China’s nuclear power.
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