“Russia is ready for dialogue with the United States of America on issues of strategic stability.
But here is what I would like to emphasize, dear colleagues, so that everyone understands me correctly.
In this case, we are dealing with a state whose ruling circles are taking open hostile actions against us.
So what?
“They are seriously going to discuss issues of strategic stability with us, while at the same time trying to inflict on Russia, as they themselves say, a strategic defeat on the battlefield,” Putin said.
He added that there was a “clear example of such hypocrisy.”
“Recently, unfounded accusations have been increasingly heard, for example, against Russia, that we are allegedly going to place nuclear weapons in space,” the president said.
According to him, such messages are fake.
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