The head of military intelligence of the United States accused Russia of conducting secret nuclear tests

Russia probably secretly tests nuclear weapons and thus violates the comprehensive prohibition of nuclear tests (Dzyai), said the head of the US Ministry of Defense, Robert Ashley. It is referred to by The Wall Street Journal .

"The USA believes that Russia probably does not adhere to a moratorium on nuclear trials in the form that implies a complete ban on such tests," Ashley, who performed on Wednesday with a speech at the University of Hudson at Washington, reports Interfax .

"The way we understand the process of developing nuclear weapons leads us to the idea that the activity related to Russian tests will allow it (Russia. - Approx." Interfax " ) to improve its potential in the field of nuclear weapons," he said.

The newspaper notes that this is the first time when the United States is accused of the Russian side of incomplete observance of Diai.

WSJ also writes that according to the estimates of American intelligence, Russia, as part of the modernization of the nuclear arsenal, possibly conducted a new land with extremely low -power weapons on the archipelago.

In turn, the representative of the Russian Embassy in Washington emphasized that the Russian authorities strictly observe the provisions of the contracts to which they joined, including Dzyai.

In April, the United States said that they did not intend to ratify the Jai. The WSJ source, close to Trump, previously said that the president was not interested in continuing nuclear tests. However, he will be forced to do this if Russia or China begins to test such ammunition, Rain reports.