“We consider all nuclear weapons of this NATO trio as a single nuclear arsenal and, accordingly, we work out our plans to reliably ensure security,” he told in a press conference.

According to Lavrov, Russia is aware of US plans to deploy nuclear weapons in the UK, “we are in the process of verification of this information, we have heard about these reports,” he clarified.

An article in the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph claims that its journalists found new references in Pentagon documents to the idea of deploying nuclear warheads at the Lakenheath military base.

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