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Crimea would support the placement of nuclear weapons on its territory once such a decision is made in Moscow, said the head of the republic, Sergey Aksyonov.
“If such an order comes from our commander-in-chief, we are going to support it,” Aksyonov said in an interview with the Sputnik news agency.
He added that he personally was sure that the nuclear weapons were perfectly safe for Crimea’s environment because Russian technologies in this field were the most advanced in the world.
During the latest major inspection of the Russian Military Forces the Defense Ministry reported on he plans to deploy ten Tupolev 22M3 strategic bombers to Crimea, but did not specify if it was planned to equip the aircraft with nuclear-tipped bombs and missiles.
In early March, a senior Foreign Ministry official said in a speech that Russia had the right to place nuclear weapons on the peninsula …. http://rt.com