Putin orders preparations for nuclear test, Russian Foreign Ministry confirms

                             

 

 

 

       preparations for nuclear test, Russian Foreign Ministry confirms

Moscow: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has confirmed that President Vladimir Putin’s order to prepare for a possible nuclear test has been implemented.

 

According to the Russian news agency TASS, Sergei Lavrov said that “President Putin’s instructions are being implemented during the Security Council meeting on November 5 and the results will be communicated to the public.”

 

The order came after US President Donald Trump’s unexpected announcement that the US would resume nuclear tests.

 

Lavrov added that Russia had not received any explanation from the US about Trump’s order.

 

On the other hand, relations between Russia and the US have been tense in recent weeks. Trump canceled a planned summit with Putin over his failure to end the war in Ukraine and imposed new sanctions on the Russian government, the first since he returned to power.

 

US President Trump announced on October 31 that the United States would resume nuclear testing after 33 years, but did not specify whether the tests would be conventional underground nuclear explosions.

 

Speaking to reporters on Air Force One before departing for Florida, Trump said: “You’ll find out very soon, we’re going to do some testing.”

 

He said he had ordered the US military to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons, which is being seen as a strong message to rivals such as China and Russia.