President Vladimir Putin has not ordered a nuclear test and Russia remains committed to the moratorium on testing this weapon of mass destruction, Moscow reiterated on Sunday, days after US President Donald Trump’s statement on nuclear weapons' tests.

“ Putin has repeatedly said that Russia adheres to its obligations under the nuclear tests ban and we are not going to carry them out, but if another country does, we will have to do so to observe parity,” the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian TV.

US President Donald Trump has said in a Truth Social post on October 29 that he has “instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.” Also Read | Trump chants ‘nuclear option’ in demand to GOP to end filibuster

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