Poland's president has called on the US to transfer nuclear weapons to Polish territory as a deterrent against future Russian aggression, a request that is likely to be perceived as highly provocative in Moscow.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Andrzej Duda said it was "clear" that President Donald Trump could redeploy US nuclear warheads stored in Western Europe to Poland, a proposal the Polish leader said he recently discussed with Keith Kellogg, the US special envoy for Ukraine.
"NATO's borders were moved east in 1999, so 26 years later there should also be a move of NATO's infrastructure to the east. For me this is clear. I think it's not only that the time has come, but that it would be safer if those weapons were already here," said Andrzej Duda, the President of Poland.
Duda hopes to revive a nuclear fission project that he unsuccessfully introduced in former President Joe Biden's administration in 2022. Poland's communist regime possessed Soviet nuclear warheads during the Cold War, but amassing such weapons again close to Russia's borders - this time under US control - would be seen as a serious threat by the Kremlin.
Duda said it was up to Trump to decide where to deploy US nuclear weapons, but recalled President Vladimir Putin's announcement in 2023 that Russia would move tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, Moscow's ally in its invasion of Ukraine. (A2 Televizion)
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