Kremlin urges caution with nuclear rhetoric after Trump's submarine order

4/8/2025 18:59

The Kremlin said on Monday that everyone should be careful about nuclear rhetoric, in its first response to a statement by U.S. President Donald Trump that he had ordered a repositioning of U.S. nuclear submarines.



Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov played down the significance of Trump's announcement last Friday that he had ordered two subs to be moved to "the appropriate regions" in response to remarks from former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev about the risk of war between the nuclear-armed adversaries.



"In this case, it is obvious that American submarines are already on combat duty. This is an ongoing process, that’s the first thing," Peskov told reporters.



"But in general, of course, we would not want to get involved in such a controversy and would not want to comment on it in any way," he added. "Of course, we believe that everyone should be very, very careful with nuclear rhetoric."



Peskov said that Russia did not see Trump's statement as marking an escalation in nuclear tension.