In the capital of the USA do not see any prerequisites for escalating international tensions over the situation in Ukraine to nuclear fall, pragmatic implementation of the start Treaty continues, said in an interview to the newspaper the Deputy state Secretary of the USA on the issues of surveillance arms control and international security rose Gottemoeller.

"We do not believe the Ukrainian crisis, nuclear crisis," Gottemoeller said, noting that in the modern world are " serious measures aimed at increasing the predictability and stability, if We're talking about nuclear weapons ".

"we're stable, and they have no such danger, which would give the basis to speak about nuclear weapons as a possible tool," she added, stressing that " despite serious differences with Russia on the Ukrainian question, We proceed with a pragmatic implementation of the start Treaty ".

before the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation called inappropriate attempts of the first NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow to scare the world of nuclear weapons of the Russian Federation on the background of NATO's practice of hiring non-nuclear member countries of the block to the planning and preparation of nuclear strikes. For example, Vershbow said that the conflict in Ukraine, as if it has a " measurement associated with WMD ".

in the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation stressed that the EU is stockpiled U.S. nuclear weapons, and Soldiers of NATO countries fulfill its combat use. Both nuclear and non-nuclear NATO members are parties to the Treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, which bans nuclear countries the transfer of nuclear weapons, and Thus surveillance on him non-nuclear countries. So, the nuclear strategy of NATO, which suggests the possibility of application of aviation member countries of the Commonwealth, non-nuclear-weapon States, for the delivery of nuclear bombs the U.S., is in direct and open conflict with the Treaty.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people. Russia has stated many times that is not a party to domestic conflict and absolutely harmless to the events in the South-East of Ukraine: no agents of special services, troops there.

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