"It's not right that Putin is talking about this. He should be ending the war in Ukraine," said Donald Trump after the Russian president announced on Sunday that the Russians had successfully tested the nuclear-powered Burevestnik drone, a nuclear-capable weapon that Moscow says can penetrate any defense shield.
Trump also spoke in response to Putin's announcement that the United States is also constantly conducting missile tests, and they also have nuclear-powered submarines near the Russian coast, so they do not need a missile with a range of 8,000 miles (nearly 13 thousand kilometers)."Russia should not play with the United States. The United States is not playing with Russia. We are constantly testing our missiles," Trump blurted out at one point in his speech.
"There is nothing here that could cause tension in relations between Moscow and Washington," said Dmitry Peskov, the Russian president's press secretary, in response to Trump's words. According to him, this is mainly because relations between the two countries are already bad (as MTI interprets his words:"bilateral relations are at a minimal level"). He did not comment on the fact that the US president believes the Kremlin should end its aggression in Ukraine.
However, he spoke about the fact that “Russia must do everything in order to guarantee its own security.” According to the Kremlin, the war aggressor that has been attacking an independent state for almost four years
“Ensuring Russia’s security is a vital issue, especially in light of the militaristic mood that we are witnessing primarily among Europeans. Europeans are in a state of internal hysteria, in a Russophobic, aggressive and belligerent mood.”
Meanwhile, on Monday afternoon, Rear Admiral Nils Andreas, the head of Norway's intelligence service, told Reuters that Russia had launched a test flight of the Burevestnik nuclear-powered maneuvering robot aircraft from the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Barents Sea. Novaya Zemlya is not the first time it has played a significant role in Moscow's tactical tests: the Soviet Union detonated the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever built, over the archipelago in October 1961.
