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In comments shared with Newsweek, Russia’s ambassador to the United States has warned that a new resolution proposed by two U.S. senators threatens to push Washington and its NATO military alliance closer to a nuclear exchange with Moscow. In the wake of Russia’s decision to deploy tactical nuclear weapons to neighboring ally Belarus, which also borders Ukraine, and lingering concerns about the state of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant located in the midst of the war, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut proposed a resolution Thursday that would consider any nuclear-related provocation by Russia or Belarus in Ukraine as a direct attack on NATO, triggering its collective defense clause. This, too, in the Russian envoy’s view, extended to mounting concerns over the situation at the Russia-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, where International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors have traveled in recent days to ensure the site’s continued operations and investigate reports of explosives being placed on the premises. Both Russian and Ukrainian officials have accused one another of planning to stage an attack on Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. While Putin has consistently emphasized that he was prepared to use nuclear weapons in the defense of the Russian Federation, Antonov pointed out that there has been no departure from the longstanding nuclear policy of the Kremlin.

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