Lavrov expressed concern about the US conducting nuclear tests.

The conduct of nuclear tests by the United States is alarming. This opinion was expressed on November 11 by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with Russian media.

"What could be a geopolitical goal for the United States? Dominance. If the nuclear weapons factor is used for this, it is alarming," Lavrov said.

He also noted that he had not heard about Moscow's announcement of nuclear tests, and also drew attention to the fact that Russia has not yet received an explanation from the United States of what American leader Donald Trump meant when he spoke about nuclear tests. In addition, the minister cited the example of a speech by one of the Pentagon officials, who pointed out the geopolitical purpose of American nuclear tests. Lavrov also called this policy a significant deviation from the concept that says that nuclear war cannot be beneficial and should never be unleashed, which was approved by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and then-American leader Ronald Reagan at the end of the last century.

He stressed that Russia had not announced that it was conducting nuclear tests.

"We are not announcing that we are conducting nuclear tests," the Russian Foreign Minister stressed.

Lavrov added that Russian President Vladimir Putin had said back in 2023 that if one of the nuclear powers conducted a nuclear weapons test, not carrier tests, not subcritical tests, but nuclear weapons tests, then Russia would do the same.

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Earlier, on November 9, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia and China are not engaged in nuclear weapons testing. He also noted that Putin had not given instructions to start preparing nuclear tests.

Russia's permanent Representative to the international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, in turn, called on the United States to provide clear and detailed explanations regarding its position on the resumption of nuclear testing.

Prior to that, on October 29, Trump issued a statement instructing the Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons "on an equal basis." Chris Wright, the head of the US Department of Energy, said that Washington's nuclear tests will be subcritical — they will take place without nuclear explosions.

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