Russia warns of “enormous threats”, “promises to updates nuclear capabilities

This week, the chief nuclear official of Russia said Moscow is facing “tremendous threats” and should update it nuclear opportunities.

Not directly calling where Russian The main nuclear threat goes from the CEO of the State Corporation on Nuclear Energy Alexei Likhachev, “the current geopolitical situation is a time of enormous threats for our country.”

“So, a nuclear shield, which is also a sword, is a guarantee of our sovereignty,” he added, RIA’s Russian State Agency reports. “Today we understand that the nuclear shield should only be improved in the coming years.”

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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the CEO of the Russian Atomic Energy Corporation Alexei Likhachev at the residence of Novo-Agariv outside Moscow on May 19, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

The comments happened less than a week after Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump He convened to the meeting face to his face, which first noted when the American leader met with the Kremlin’s chief since Russia broke into Ukraine in 2022.

While Trump and Putin were positive after the negotiations, little, seemedUkraine As the week moved, the fire seemed to stop.

It is unclear why Likhachev at this time issued comments on the Russian nuclear program, and he did not demonstrate what updates he would like to make in the Moscow program “Shield”.

Trump issued similar comments earlier this year when in May he announced his plans Develop the “golden dome” The missile defense system is inspired by the Israeli Iron Dome system – and which is expected to cost at least $ 175 billion.

Although security experts sound anxiety when it comes to Escalation in China Nuclear DevelopmentRussia and the US continue to own 90% of the world’s nuclear arsenal.

The growing nuclear arsenal in China seeks to break US alliances and dominate Asia, the report warns

The image shows the data of the Federation of American scientists indicating that there were 12 331 nuclear weapons in 2025. (Federal

Moscow continues to contain almost 4400 nuclear warheads, over 1500 of which are “strategically deployed” and the United States has more than 3,700 combat heads in its reserves with 1400, reports.

While nuclear disarmament has become a constant international purpose after the end of the Cold War, the trajectory of this policy remains questionable because relations between Washington and Moscow again became unstable amid Putin’s war in Ukraine, and his growing relations with the Chinese president Xi jinping.

A A new start contract Remains the only bilateral agreement on the control of nuclear weapons between the US and Russia, and although it was expanded in 2021, it should end in February 2026. The future of the contract – for the first time signed in 2010 – also remains unclear when Moscow ceased to participate in the agreement in 2023.

Russian military vehicles, including intercontinental launchers of the Yars ballistic missiles, are rolled on the Red Square during the Victory Military Parade in Central Moscow on May 9, 2024. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images)

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W / He said the suspension meant that he would continue to comply with the stock limits in accordance with the treaty, but he would not allow the US to continue checking.

Digital Fox News could not immediately reach the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for comments, as nations are increasingly trying to expand its nuclear capabilities by just six months before the new launch contract is over.