A top U.S. diplomat on Wednesday warned Russia against deploying nuclear weapons in Crimea and said the United States and its allies would respond if the Kremlin opts to do so.
Victoria Nuland, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, said such a move by Russia would be “extremely dangerous,” though she did not specify what form a U.S. and allied response might take.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had previously told a state news agency on Monday that “Russia has every reason to dispose of its nuclear arsenal” on the peninsula that it annexed in March, following what international …read more
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
