IN BRIEF: Russia’s stance on UK, French plans to hand over nuclear weapons to Kiev

MOSCOW, February 24. /TASS/. Russia expects the British and French public and lawmakers to pay attention to Russian intelligence reports about London and Paris’s plans to hand over nuclear technologies to Kiev, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told Vesti.

Any attempts to help Ukraine obtain military nuclear potential will trigger Moscow’s tough response, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

TASS has summarized Russia’s official stance on the issue.

Paris and London’s plans to transfer nuclear technologies to Kiev for the purpose of creating a bomb as bordering on insanity, Peskov said.

He expressed hope that this fact will not stay unnoticed by lawmakers and the general public in the United Kingdom and France.