Breitbart.com reports: “Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov suggested in an interview on Wednesday that his country could pursue new nuclear weapons deployments in response to the stationing of American long-range missiles and hypersonic weapons in Germany…

Ryabkov was speaking to the Interfax news agency on Thursday and responding to the July 10 announcement that America would increase its arsenal of weapons in Germany.

‘I’m not ruling out any options,’ he said, according to a translation by the Moscow Times, reportedly a suggestion that more nuclear deployments were possible to ensure Russia has the ‘widest possible optionality.’

‘Considering the combined capabilities of NATO member countries, we must calibrate our responses without any internal checks in terms of what, where and when to deploy,’ he asserted…”