National Interest warns of 'crazy' move by the West
The source said that the transfer of US-made B-61 nuclear bombs seems to be the most likely scenario.
On December 11, TASS news agency quoted an article in National Interest magazine on the same day stating that NATO could make a "crazy" decision to deploy B-61 nuclear bombs in Poland or Ukraine.
According to the article, after the US and its NATO allies refused any opportunity to de-escalate the conflict in Ukraine and allowed Kiev to launch strikes with Western-made long-range missiles deep into Russian territory, the possibility of deploying nuclear weapons in Poland or possibly even in Ukraine should be seriously considered.
If so, the transfer of US-made B-61 nuclear bombs seems to be the most likely scenario, the source said.
However, the magazine stressed that the West allowing the deployment or transfer of nuclear weapons to Ukraine, a non-NATO country, "is fundamentally insane."
The article added that Poland had previously announced its readiness to equip its fleet of US-made F-35 Lightning II fighter jets with US B-61 nuclear bombs.
First developed in the early 1960s in the United States, "the B-61 bomb has been deployed in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Türkiye over the years," the article noted.
The bombs could also be dropped from US B-2 Spirit long-range nuclear stealth aircraft, F-15E and F-35, the magazine explained.
According to TASS, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on December 5 that the scenario of the Kiev government possessing nuclear weapons is completely unacceptable. The Russian diplomat stressed that Moscow is determined to prevent this scenario from happening.