The Kremlin on Monday urged caution following U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s announcement that he had ordered the deployment of two nuclear submarines in response to online comments by Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe approach any statements related to nuclear issues with great caution,\u201d top spokesman Dmitry Peskov told<\/a> reporters.\u00a0\u201cRussia is firmly committed to nuclear non-proliferation, and we believe that all parties should exercise the utmost restraint when it comes to nuclear rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump said<\/a> Friday that he had ordered the movement of two nuclear submarines after Medvedev, who served as president between 2008 and 2012, made a reference to\u00a0a hypothetical Soviet doomsday device that could launch a nuclear counterstrike even if the country’s leadership was wiped out.<\/p>\n Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Trump said the submarines were \u201cin the region,\u201d without clarifying whether they were nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed or specifying where they had been deployed. U.S. military submarine movements are classified.<\/p>\n Peskov downplayed Trump\u2019s remarks, noting that U.S. submarines are regularly deployed as part of standard operations. Russian President Vladimir Putin has not publicly weighed in on the heightened tensions.<\/p>\n The exchange came as Trump continued to press Moscow to end the war against Ukraine by Aug. 8 or face new sanctions. Trump has also floated the possibility of \u201csecondary tariffs\u201d that would target countries still trading with Russia, including China and India.<\/p>\n When asked about Trump\u2019s\u00a0comments<\/a>\u00a0over the weekend that the U.S. was \u201ctotally prepared\u201d for a potential nuclear standoff, Peskov told<\/a> reporters that \u201cthere can be no winners in a nuclear war.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kremlin on Monday urged caution following U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s announcement that he had ordered the deployment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,31610,41,39,42,40,3277],"class_list":["post-44783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}