Kremlin plays down Trump’s nuclear rhetoric as US envoy set to visit Moscow

The Kremlin played Donald Trump’s two nuclear submarines closer to Russia, saying that Moscow did not want to interfere with polemics.

In the first official reaction since the US President’s comments last Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the American submarines were still in war and rejected the idea that there was an rise.

Peskov said, “Of course, many very complex, very sensitive problems that perceive most of them as emotionally are discussing.

According to the Russian media, the US ambassador Steve Witkoff will visit Russia on Wednesday.

Last week, President Trump ordered former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s “extremely provocative” comments to two nuclear submarines “to be placed in appropriate areas”.

Trump did not say if there were nuclear energy or nuclear armed submarines.

Medvedev, who is increasingly overly rhetorical online in recent years, accused Trump of “playing ultimatum game” with Russia after setting a new deadline for the US president to end the war with Vladimir Putin.

Peskov said on Monday without referring to Medvedev’s saliva directly, “in every country of leadership … While having different perspectives,” Russian foreign policy alone was dictated by Putin.

Medvedev did not react to Trump’s reaction and he was not active in X since he sent the disturbing pole.

The relations between the United States and Russia were significantly recovered after Trump started to work in January – but in recent months, US President Putin may not be really determined to end the war in Ukraine, which began when Moscow launched a full -scale invasion in February 202.

Now, if Trump is not accepted until Friday, August 8, he threatened Moscow with serious tariffs aimed at oil and other exports, and brought a deadline for Russia to reach a peace agreement.

Nevertheless, Washington and Moscow remained in contact and Peskov welcomed Witkoff’s trip this week.

“We are always happy to see Mr. Witkoff in Moscow … We see this theme as important, meaningful and useful,” he said, adding that Witkoff and Putin could meet.

If the ceasefire could not be reached until Friday, Trump said he would apply sanctions and secondary tariffs to determine Moscow’s trading with him.

But at the same time, Russia – now the world’s most sanctional country – “quite good to avoid sanctions” confessed.

Since spring, three rounds of talks between the Russian and Ukraine could not end the conflict.

Only last week, Putin reiterated Russia’s main purpose in the war that “eliminating the causes of the crisis in Ukraine and ensuring the security of Russia”.

Moscow’s maximalist military and political peace – the fact that Ukraine has become an impartial state, significantly reduced its army, and abandoning its NATO demands – remains unacceptable for Kiev and Western partners.