Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said in a statement April 8 that the European Union, under the rubric of “deterring Russia,” is secretly exploring ways to create its own nuclear weapons production facilities, TASS reported in an April 8 article, “EU Explores Ways to Create Nuke Production Capabilities—Russian Intel Agency.”
This nuclear weapon production capability would be utilized in a showdown with Russia, the SVR implies.
The recent SVR report asserts, “Secret work has begun in the endless corridors of the EU headquarters to study ways to create their own nuclear weapons production capabilities, with EU officials naturally claiming that the sole goal is to deter the imaginary Russian threat. It seems [European Commission President] Ursula von der Leyen and her accomplices consider the role of warmongers in the Ukraine conflict to be too unassuming. They must be dreaming of the evil glory of Nazi Germany’s leaders that unleashed World War II,” the statement reads.
The statement continues, “According to the information obtained by the SVR, this time, the Brussels-led EU has embarked on a dangerous path of inevitably undermining the global security architecture and the international system for the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in order to implement their plan for another ‘eastern campaign’.” The ‘Eastern Campaign’ refers to Operation Barbarossa, in which, on June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany and its allies launched an unprecedented 3.8 million axis troops in an invasion of the Soviet Union.
The SVR statement makes clear that the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen is involved with the EU project to build a bomb, agreeing “to make sure that these preparations take place as secretly as possible.” Further, the SVR stresses sharply that German experts, “are capable of secretly acquiring enough weapons-grade plutonium in the fuel chambers of research laboratories in Karlsruhe, Dresden, Erlangen and Julich within about a month to make one nuclear explosive device, while it will take them just a week to obtain weapons-grade uranium at the enrichment facility in Gronau.”
“In the meantime,” the document states, “the UK and France [which possess nuclear weapons] will continue to increasingly coordinate their national nuclear doctrines. A pan-European doctrine of nuclear deterrence is expected to be formalized later. It will be based on the French and British military capabilities, as well as on financial and infrastructure-related contributions by the EU countries that don’t possess nuclear weapons. Moreover, the EU will reserve the opportunity to set up a completely independent nuclear forces command,” the SVR pointed out.
On February 24, the Russia Foreign Intelligence Service accused the United Kingdom and France of actively working to provide Ukraine with a nuclear bomb.
