Peskov explained Putin's words about nuclear tests

Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed to study the feasibility of nuclear tests, rather than start preparations for them. This was announced on November 5 by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

"I want to emphasize that the president did not give instructions to start preparing the test," he said in an interview with TASS.

Peskov stressed that the president had only instructed to work out the feasibility of nuclear weapons testing. He added that this topic is currently under development.

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