Polish President Andrzej Duda has again called on the United States to deploy nuclear weapons on Polish territory as a deterrent to Russia.
Mr Duda's comments, made in an interview with the Financial Times, are the latest sign that the Nato country is increasingly thinking about nuclear defence amid growing concerns about Russia.
The Polish president is once again raising an issue he already raised with the Biden administration in 2022.
Mr Duda's foreign affairs adviser, Wojciech Kolarski, backed his position in an interview on Polish radio RMF FM on Thursday, arguing that nuclear defence would enhance the security of Poland, which sits on NATO's eastern flank and shares borders with Ukraine, Belarus and the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk, a political rival of Mr Duda, said last week that Poland was in talks with France over President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to use France’s nuclear deterrent to protect the continent from Russian threats, an idea Moscow has described as “extremely confrontational”.
Mr Tusk made the comments in parliament after Mr Macron announced a “strategic debate” on using France's nuclear deterrent to protect European allies amid concerns about a possible US withdrawal from the conflict.
In his televised address to the nation, the French president called Moscow “a threat to France and Europe.”
France is the only nuclear power in the European Union.
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